Imperial Skatepark grand opening scheduled for Saturday
The Imperial Skatepark grand opening is set for Saturday at 8:30 a.m. along West 6th Street in Campbell Park.
Local
BRAN riders relax under a tent Sunday. Charging stations for phones and other electronic devices were available to riders. (Johnson Publications photo.)
From right, Doug Martin of LIncoln, John Richardson or Kirksville, Missouri, and Kent Baker of Lincoln relax in the shade of a BRAN truck in Imperial Sunday. (Johnson Publications photo.)
Ritchie and Coni Meyer of Page, Nebraska ride up a hill on Highway 61 coming into Imperial. Members of the Imperial BRAN committee placed signs along sections of Highway 61 to alert drivers of the bicylists on the road. (Johnson Publications photo.)
BRAN stay in Imperial rated a success
Imperial played host to several hundred visitors on Sunday.
Last summer here, Humanities Nebraska Council speaker, Cherrie Beam-Callaway, presented one of three chapters from the trilogy of Irish immigrant, Mariah Monahan, who homesteaded in Nebraska during the 19th century. (Johnson Publications file photo)
Museum hosting Humanities Nebraska speaker
Cherrie Beam-Callaway will present a program in two presentations this weekend on the historical, fact-based accounts of an Irish immigrant settling in Nebraska.
Javier Leon, above, former Rotary exchange student from Mexico, passed through Imperial on a motorcycle journey across the country. He and two friends stopped in Imperial to visit Bill Mollring, below, whose family hosted him in the mid 1970s. He brought a Los Mochis, Mexico Rotary flag to share with the local club. (Johnson Publication and Courtesy photos)
Rotary exchange student returns to Imperial
Tuesday brought a surprise to Bill Mollring when Javier “Topo” Leon stepped back into his life.
This map shows the different legs and dates of the 2018 Torch Run. (Courtesy graphic).
Torch run passing through Imperial this weekend
Chase County residents are invited to participate in the Torch Run this weekend.