CLARINDA -- Harlan Community picked up two Hawkeye Ten Conference wrestling wins Thursday night, defeating Shenandoah 37-27 before rallying past Clarinda 46-31.

    COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Ruth Dinesen, 93, Council Bluffs, formerly of Harlan, died December 19 at Hansen House Memory Care Assisted Living.    Services will be Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 11 a.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  A prayer service will be held Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 7 p.m. at the funeral home.  Visitation is Tuesday from 5-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m.

    AVOCA -- Aldine Fay Lippold, 82, Avoca, died December 20 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.    Services will be held Friday, Dec. 23 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.  Visitation was Thursday, Dec. 22 from 5-7 p.m.

    OMAHA -- Debra S. Hipnar, 60, Omaha, died December 19 at Josie Harper Hospice House.    Services will be held Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 11 a.m. at Hoy-Kilnoski Funeral Home with her cremated ashes to be dispersed at a later date over the Rocky Mountains.  Visitation is Monday, Dec. 26 from 6-8 p.m.

    HARLAN -- Bethany Kay Perkins and Matthew Aaron Colvin both of Austin, TX exchanged marriage vows on September 3, 2016 at First Baptist Church in Harlan. Pastor Dan Hawn performed the 3:30 p.m. double ring ceremony.    Parents of the couple are Phil and Jennifer Perkins, Harlan; and Sam and Shari Colvin, Hutchinson, MN. The bride was escorted down the aisle by her father. Matron of honor was Jody Tomjack, Sioux Falls, SD.

    HARLAN -- HCHS freshmen student council members made ornaments and Christmas cards for the children to color at Santa in the Cabins at the Shelby County Historical Society last week. The cards will be given to veterans and teachers.

    HARLAN – Officials with Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan announced the death of Dr. Edward Fisher, an orthopedic surgeon with the hospital.    Fisher died last week.  He had joined Myrtue Medical Center and Cass County Health System in February, 2015. 

    SHELBY -- Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, twin sons of the late teen-idol Rick Nelson, stopped for breakfast at The Corn Crib in Shelby Dec. 11. They visited with restaurant owners, brothers Dave Robinson (left) and Doug Robinson, and posed for a picture with “Sherman.” The Nelsons are singers, and they each play guitar. After performing in Iowa, they headed to Austin, TX, for a Dec. 13 gig.  (Photo contributed)

    COUNTY – Every county employee is receiving $100 in chamber gift certificates this holiday season thanks to their willingness to participate in a wellness incentive that is saving Shelby County $50,000 in health insurance premiums.    Total cost to the county for the gift cards will be $6,100, but the savings is tremendous, officials said.  If there wasn’t that type of participation, the savings wouldn’t be there.