Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
Vernon Sammons was celebrating his 100th birthday on May 8, 2006, and family, friends and neighbors were invited to a Celebration, planned by his kids and grandkids on Sunday, May 7th at the Solomon Valley Manor.
The Rooks County Health Center was holding its annual Health Fair on May 6 on the front lawn of the hospital located at 304 S. Colorado in Plainville. The morning was set to begin with the Eagle Med helicopter scheduled to land at 8 a.m.
The Stockton High School Awards Banquet was to be held May 10, sponsored by the Stockton Lions Club, with guest speaker Dave Thorell from KRVN Radio.
Mayor Kim Thomas signed the Proclamation for National Homes for the Aging Week. Shown with Thomas were Solomon Valley Manor Council members Maude Dryden, Lawrence Bice, Bethyl Bigge, Natalie Fields, and Emaline Kennedy. The week-long celebration was on the calendar for May 14-20, 2006.
Despite nearly constant rain, several members of the Stockton Tiger Track Squad participated in the Beloit Relays on April 28. Luke Kriley was the only Tiger to medal, placing third in the Discus with a throw of 133.3”. The boys’ 4 x 100 Relay Team of Ty Winters, Nathan Palmer, Leneal Weiser and Logan Bennett, with a time of 47.6, finished in sixth place, as did the 4 x 800 Relay Team of Kyle Weiser, Nathan Palmer, DJ Kelly and Leneal Weiser with a time of 9.11.23.
Rich Bouchey shared a picture of a rattlesnake he discovered on BB Road south of Plainville. He looked at it close enough to count seven rattles and one button.
Webster State Park was holding its OK Kids Day at Coyote Shelter on Saturday, May 6. Activities were to include trail hikes, trapshooting, fishing clinics and lunch.
Stockton sixth-grader Cody Deutscher bagged his first turkey on April 16. It weighed 17.4 lbs., and had a four-inch beard.
Heather Gartrell, a K-State junior majoring in family and consumer science education, was awarded a scholarship from Phi Kappa Phi, a national honorary society recognizing and promoting academic excellence in all fields of higher education. The $1,000 grants were designed to recognize and assist undergraduates as they studied abroad. Gartrell planned to study in Spain at the Centro de Linguas Modernae at the University de Granada.
Showing at the Nova Theatre was “Scary Movie 4” with Anna Farris and Regina Hall.
Small Town Red, AQHA World Show Qualifier, owned by Frank Dix of rural Woodston, was sold April 15 at the Pitzer Ranch Spring Sale in Ericson, Neb.
Velma J. Newell, 88. had passed away.
Looking Back 14 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year...1992 — Jerry Stithem had caught a 70-lb. flathead at Lake Webster. Commencement at SHS was planned for 25 seniors: 16 boys and 9 girls. Nicki Travlos was the valedictorian and Mindy Keirns, salutatorian.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1950 — The State Holstein Show, held in Stockton, was counted as one of the most successful ever held. The Stockton Chapter of the Future Farmers of America was one of sixteen chapters in the state that won the Golden Emblem Award at the Better Chapter Contest.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1908 — Asa Ives, while listing corn at his place several miles north of town, had with him a 22-calibre rifle, carried to shoot rabbits. The gun accidentally slipped to the ground and discharged, the bullet passing through his hand and striking him full in the forehead, but the ball only splintered the bone and glanced off, passing under the skin for two inches. Others were near him and brought him to town as quickly as possible where his wounds were dressed by Dr. Hinkle. No serious results were expected to follow, but if his hand hadn’t broken the force of the bullet, he would undoubtedly have been killed.
