It was a big night in Spalding, Friday night. The result: there’s a big bus trip to Lincoln and a state final playoff game at Memorial Field in the offing.

District Livestock Judging was held Monday, Nov. 18, and the 7:20 a.m.

Samantha Weeder of Genoa, a senior majoring in agribusiness at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, won a $500 prize in the university’s recent 3-2-1 Quick Pitch competition. Hosted by the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship, the event gives students from any college on campus a platform to deliver a three-minute business idea to volunteer judges from Nebraska’s entrepreneurship community for the chance to win cash prizes totaling $12,000.

Every year during Christmas season, Samaritan’s Purse, a global evangelical Christian ministry, provides “Christmas Shoeboxes” for needy children worldwide. Since 1993, the ministry has collected and delivered over 220 million shoeboxes, to children in over 170 countries.