Petersburg Press

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.

According to Petersburg’s Red Cross blood drive coordinatorsKathy Koch and JoAnn Mattner the July 21st drive was short of their 48-unit goal by six units. They reported two new donors Laurene Veik and Tina Stokes.

A great honor was bestowed upon Steve Pelster of Omaha in mid-May of this year. After spending decades of his life boxing and working with Golden Gloves of America, a prestigious amateur boxing organization, Pelster was inducted into the Golden Gloves Boxing Hall of Fame.