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The Letcher Legion Auxiliary has announced the winners of their poppy poster contest, judged by Jane Amick. The results are as follows:

Class I – first, Lanae Wurtz; second, Ava Wurtz; third, Sophia Wurtz;

Class II – first, Kaylee Adams; second, Kaidence Fridley; third, Simon Wurtz;

  Class III  (only two entries) – first, Michyl Wurtz; second – Judah Wurtz;

Class IV  (colony students) – first, Teah Wipf; second, Savannah  Wurtz; third, Titus Wipf;

  Class VII (one entry) – John Dise.

Winners will move on to Hot Springs for the state contest, judged by Jane Benzel.

….See a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

A good crowd enjoyed the Letcher American Legion pancake, egg and sausage feed Sunday from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Legion members, Commander Butch Morrison, Harry Northrup, Ron Ruml, Jeremy White, Perry Moody, Larry Parce, Skip Kahle, and Mark Stevens started frying sausage at 8:30 a.m. Helpers were the young men of the future Letcher baseball team, Bryce Larson, Michael Hoffman, Clay Moody and Leighton Tarbox.

…See a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

On Saturday, April 2, Ken and Lila Stach had started a controlled burn to burn off 20 acres of slough located southwest of the old Letcher school building. According to Ken Stach, there must have been a stump in the burned area that was still glowing, and when the wind came up on Sunday, it blew sparks from the stump across the railroad tracks to the east. Those sparks started a big bean field on fire on the east side of the tracks and things got out of hand from there. 

…Read on and see a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

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