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SUBMITTED ARTICLE O'Neill Community Foundation Fund and Holt County Economic Development Fund welcome Emily Morrow and Katie Hawk home for the summer to help local leadership further their missions. Morrow and Hawk are both students at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Morrow graduated from UNL in May with a dual degree in advertising and public relations and broadcasting. Hawk will begin her sophomore year in the fall at UNL studying business management. Both began their duties in May a...
Ashley Koenig and Gage Nilson were crowned prom queen and king, respectively, during Ewing Public School's July 17 junior-senior prom. The event was held at St. Dominic's Hall. Parents of junior class members supplied the dinner....
The class of 2020 has left the building. With diplomas in hand, the last class to graduate as Ewing Tigers spent Sunday afternoon together, surrounded by family and school personnel, during a 2 p.m. graduation ceremony. Principal Greg Appleby welcomed guests and reported while the class faced adversity during the final quarter of school, its legacy will be the accomplishments the graduates made throughout their high school careers. "These young kids - young adults, actually - are tough, they are...
Katie Hawk Ewing Public Schools valedictorian Faculty members, fellow students, family and friends, welcome. To my fellow class members: I am proud to say that we have crossed the finish line. For the last four years, we have been waiting and anticipating this day; praying for it to come faster. However, now that it's here, I'm sorry it is, because it means leaving behind a school that has given me so many opportunities, friends who have pushed me and teachers who have mentored me. These halls...
Ewing Public School's senior class went from studying history to becoming part it. After spending the last quarter of school learning remotely, and living through a global pandemic, the last class to graduate from the Holt County district will receive diplomas, Sunday, July 26, during a 2 p.m. ceremony. Elizabeth Burival, Mackenzie Cunningham, Skylar Eacker, Katie Hawk, Xavier Hobbs, Joe Hoffman, Emma Hollenback, Ashley Koenig, Emily Kurpgeweit, Connor Napier, Gage Nilson, Elizabeth Nordby, Madi...
Six area students received Nebraska Chiropractic Physicians Association and Nebraska School Activities Association academic all-state honors for winter 2019-2020 activities. James Kester, a Clearwater senior, received the award for wrestling. Ewing senior Ashley Koenig and Orchard junior Avery Cheatum were recognized for girls’ basketball. Ewing seniors Katie Hawk and Liz Nordby received the award for speech participation. Students are nominated by coaches and the nomination is based on individual academic excellence, leadership and c...
The Ewing speech team traveled to the Niobrara Valley Conference speech meet, at Keya Paha County School, in Springview, March 2. Tiger speakers finished sixth of 14 teams. Stuart won the championship and Chambers finished in the runner-up position. Five Ewing speakers earned medals. Katie Hawk finished third in humorous prose and Elizabeth Nordby earned a fifth place medal in poetry interpretation. Sidney Stallbaum teamed with Hawk to earn bronze in duet acting. Hawk, Nordby, Allison Schrunk,...
Katie Hawk, a senior at Ewing High School, finished in the top five of the Nebraska Poetry Out Loud finals competition, held Sunday, March 8, at the Sheldon Art Museum, on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Each student recited, from memory, two poems, and the top five recited a third poem. Juan De La Cruz, from Gordon-Rushville High School, won the competition. Jayden Leonard from Thayer Central was named first runner-up and Lauren Hubert, Skutt Catholic High Schoo, was second...
Ewing speech team individuals placed in five events at Saturday’s Creighton Speech Invitational. Twenty-one teams participated and Ewing finished eighth in team standings. Speakers qualified for championship finals in three events. Elizabeth Nordby earned bronze in poetry interpretation, while Katie Hawk finished third in humorous prose. The OID team of Skylar Eacker, Kyra Nilson, Emily Nordby, Elizabeth Nordby and Hawk earned fourth place medals. Two individuals qualified for the next-in finals. Sidney Stallbaum received the silver medal in e...
The Ewing Tiger speech team tied for second with Stuart in the O/C Whirlwind Invitational speech meet, Feb. 29. Creighton won the meet Kyra Nilson earned gold in serious prose. Katie Hawk and Sidney Stallbaum finished first in duet acting, while Nilson and Emily Nordby ended fourth. Hawk claimed the gold medal in humorous prose. Stallbaum finished second in entertainment speaking and third in persuasive speaking. Three speakers placed in poetry interpretation: Elizabeth Nordby, third; Natalie Stallbaum, fourth and Olga Mendoza, sixth. The oral...
Ewing high school and junior high quiz bowl teams will begin the competitive season the first week of March. On Tuesday, March 3, high school students will compete in the Educational Service Unit #8 high school quiz bowl contest, in Neligh. Junior high students will participate in the ESU #8 junior high quiz bowl contest, in Neligh, on Wednesday, March 4. Both days of competition are slated to begin at 9 a.m. Members of the high school team include Adrienne Parker, Katie Hawk, Jeremiah...
The Ewing Tiger speech team took top honors in team sweepstakes at Saturday's Ainsworth Invitational speech meet. In the field of 10 teams, West Holt was second; Gordon-Rushville, third and Ainsworth, fourth. The team earned three first-place medal in three events: the oral interpretation of drama team of Liz Nordby, Katie Hawk, Skylar Eacker, Kyra Nilson and Emily Nordby; duet acting team of Hawk and Sidney Stallbaum; and Liz Nordby in oral interpretation of poetry. Nilson and Emily Nordby...
Katie Hawk, a Ewing High School senior, competed in Poetry Out Loud regional competition, Sunday, in Kearney. She will move on to state finals, scheduled March 8 in Lincoln. Hawk recited "Silence" by Thomas Hood and "Abandoned Farmhouse" by Ted Kooser in regional competition and will add "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as she heads to the state competition....
The Ewing speech team traveled to Burwell, Saturday, where they placed third of 19 teams, behind Ord and Stuart. Medal winners included Liz Nordby, Oral Interpretation of Drama and poetry interpretation, third; Skylar Eacker, OID, third; Katie Hawk, third, OID and duet acting and fourth, humorous prose; Sidney Stallbaum, third, duet acting; (back row, l-r): Allison Schrunk, third, informative speaking; Olga Mendoza top novice informative speaking; Emily Nordby, second, duet acting and third,...
Ewing speechsters brought home hardware in six events and the varsity team ended seventh of 15 teams at Saturday’s Stuart Speech Invitational. In varsity competition, Katie Hawk and Sidney Stallbaum earned silver in duet acting. Hawk teamed with Skylar Eacker, Liz Nordby, Kyra Nilson and Emily Nordby to earn the silver medal in oral interpretation of drama. Allison Schrunk picked up the bronze medal in informative speaking. Stallbaum ended sixth in persuasive speaking. She was unable to p...
Katie Hawk, a senior at Ewing Public Schools, recently won the school's Poetry Out Loud competition. Ewing Public Schools participates in the program annually. Students memorize two poems and recite them. One judge scores accuracy, while a panel of judges rate each student on physical presence, voice and articulation, dramatic appropriateness, evidence of understanding and overall performance. In addition to Hawk, Olga Mendoza finished second and Adrienne Parker, third. Other classroom winners...
Niobrara Valley Conference officials recently announced names of students who qualified for the NVC Principal's All-Academic Team for 2019-2020. To be eligible, students must be a junior or senior with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or above. Seven Clearwater students were named to the list, including Kierra Bearinger, Lauren Behnk, Taylor Ann Bolling, Tyler Hupp, James Kester, seniors; and Hunter Klabenes and Eli Thiele, juniors. Nine Ewing students received recogniton including...
A strong core of polished speakers, along with an ambitious group of novices, comprise the 2020 Ewing speech team. Coach Julie Harley said a dozen students will fill spots on the team. Participants include Skylar Eacker, Katie Hawk, Elizabeth Nordby, Sidney Stallbaum, Kyra Nilson, Allison Schrunk, Emily Nordby, Natalie Stallbaum, Emma Hoffman, Olga Mendoza, Austin Muff and Adrienne Parker. The team will compete at Stuart on Feb. 8; Burwell, Feb. 15; Grand Island Northwest or Ainsworth, Feb. 22;...
Play production teams from Ewing and Clearwater/Orchard competed in district competition recently. Ewing finished seventh in the Class D2-4, receiving rankings of six, seven and eight from a panel of three judges. The team presented “Alice.” St. Mary’s finished first and Chambers earned the runner-up trophy. Seven Ewing cast members received acting honors, including Skylar Eacker, Sidney Stallbaum, Allison Schrunk, Katie Hawk, Olga Mendoza, Kyra Nilson and Emily Nordby. On Dec. 11, St. Mary’s claimed the Class D2 state championship with th...
Ewing Public Schools seniors Ashley Koenig and Katie Hawk and Alyssa Moser, of Clearwater, a senior at O'Neill Public Schools were announced as school recipients in the Believers & Achievers program, sponsored by U.S. Bank ® and Nebraska School Activities Association. According to the NSAA, "All of the students nominated for the Believers & Achievers awards program represent the very best of Nebraska's high schools. All nominees this year are outstanding leaders within their schools and...