Anybody notice the posters in windows of Bayard-land
businesses about the Antique Tractor Rally across Nebraska? Are you planning to
go to the lunch at the Angora Club House on June 11, at 12:30? You didn’t notice
and don’t know? Well, you need to read this article to catch up the latest
scuttlebutt. (I’m the Transcripts town crier.)
The Angora lunch coincides with the sixth annual Antique
Tractor Rally across Nebraska, which begins around noon on June 4, in Beatrice.
It ends on June 12, around 1pm, at the National Monument in Scottsbluff and Agate
Fossil Bed in Harrison.
The 2016 rally celebrates Nebraska’s 150 year history of
agriculture.
Over those nine days, anywhere from 50 – 80 antique tractors
will trek across Nebraska at 12 mph. Along the way they’ll make nine planned
stops: Beginning in Beatrice they’ll chug to Geneva, then
Hastings, St. Paul,
Broken Bow, Thedford, Hyannis, Alliance, and Scottsbluff.
In 2014, NAFA chose to use the journey of ancient tractors across
Nebraska to promote Operation Comfort Warriors, which is an American Legion
program that helps needy veterans and their families.
Last year’s Antique Tractor Rally raised $10,700 with 100
percent of the money going to wounded warriors and their families.
This year, to honor that cause, The Angora Hill Toppers are
serving lunch at the Angora Club House on June 11, at 12:30. Tickets are $8 for
adults, $5 for children 6 – 12, and children 5and under are free.
It’s your opportunity to eat a special lunch, for a special
cause, at a special price. Proceeds from the lunch go to the Angora Hill
Toppers, but the special guest that day is a big, big, big, jug to hold all
those free-will offerings to Operation Comfort Warriors. (Leave with a full
stomach and an empty billfold.)
By the way: Students who are part of Pathfinders, which is
the grade schools after school program, designed and hung the above-mentioned
posters. Bayard thanks Michael Berry and the kids. Good job.
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