BENTLEY LOUIS GEIGER
COVID-19 has prevented many families from participating in activities they might normally be doing during these sunshiny spring days. It has however, provided the opportunity to be creative with how time is utilized. Ryan and Becky O’Hare’s family recently spent an afternoon picking up trash in the ditches near their home southeast of Gothenburg. They challenged two other familes to do the same which led to a “snowballeffect”, alsobecoming known as the O’Hare Pandemic Challenge. Families continue to challenge other familes to choose an area of the community and clean it up. Time may not be being spent how it’d been planned, but familes are having fun connecting while cleaning!
The CDC and Gov. Rickets have strongly urged residents to stay home during the COVID-19 crisis, and for the most part, people are listening. While no one argues that limiting exposure to others will help flatten the curve and keep people safe from infection and transmission of the highly contagious virus, the decrease in social interaction is having a negative impact on small businesses and small business owners. The people who rely on our very presence and money to make a living are trying desperately to continue to serve and protect patrons during this time.
Friends, classmates and family honored one of their own on Friday evening, April 10 to celebrate the life of Gauge Soller who passed away on Monday, April 6th. After uniting in a prayer led by Scott Foster the tribe paraded in the streets of Gothenburg with their vehicles decked out with balloons, streamers, encouraging words and flags. Gauge’s friends always looked forward to riding around with their buddy be it to head out hunting, fishing or just to talk about life.