Petersburg Press

Mert Toelle, of Norfolk, returned again this year to The Rae Valley Heritage Days to share his vast farm collection which he enjoys displaying. He said he started this collection 15 years ago.

Last week the Petersburg Fire Department placed fittings and control box on a large pre-existing submersible well at Bonanza Feedlot site. This will allow an emergency vehicle such as a fire truck to access the well which pumps 240 gallons per minute will hook directly onto any emergency vehicle greatly reducing road time spent traveling to Petersburg for water refills. With the close proximity to the Spalding and Albion Fire Districts this well will be made available to area departments in the hopes that grass fires can be controlled faster, safer and with less damage. Placing the controls and hookup on the well pictured Dale Salber and John Wagner also assisting Boomer Baumgartner.

This year’s winner of the 430 Case tractor grand prize at the Antique Tractor Bee held at Rae Valley was Thad Frey of Hooper. The second-place winner was Ed Stanies of Central City, picking up the pedal pull tractor.

Saturday, August 9th the annual Marv Koch/ Duane Childers memorial trap Shoot was held at the Antelope County Shooters trap range. Over 55 shooters were present.

(Above) Utility lines were being laid in the alley to what is planed as the new home of Nick Prothman in west Petersburg; (below): recently the house previously owned by Mike Prothman now the property of Jason and Samantha Zabka was razed and cleaned up. Many will remember this as the Marv and Mary Zabka home; (below left): last week repair work was completed on one lane of Main Street near Central Valley Ag elevator two crumbled spots were removed and repoured. (below right) The area received heavy truck traffic. Construction is progressing on the new home of Doug and Amber Heusman Petersburg’s newest addition.