SHELBY -- Joyce (Eggerss) Rihner of Shelby will celebrate her 80th birthday on October 12. Her family is planning a card shower in her honor. Cards will reach her if sent to 816 St. F66, Shelby, IA 51570.    Joyce and her husband, Tom’s family includes Lori and Darin Andersen, Council Bluffs; and Gale and Pam Rihner, Shelby. The Rihners have four grandchildren. 

    ELK HORN -- On the evening of Thursday, October 6, Nazi concentration camp survivor Steen Metz will speak to an open audience at the Elk Horn Lutheran Church beginning at 7 p.m. A question-and-answer session will follow his 45-minute presentation.

    REGIONAL – You’ll definitely feel them before you see them.  Those little black bugs which seem to have more teeth than they do body, swarming through the air in the early fall evenings just before dark, causing distress for anyone who may be gardening, attending a ball game or just out for a walk.    And that ferocious bite they have!    The past two weeks have been the worst, as the warmer weather has brought them out of hiding.

Congratulations!King Brandon TrevinoQueen Brooke Nelson

    HARLAN – Local economic development officials entertained a group from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs Wednesday, Sept.

    HARLAN -- Gerald L. “Jerry” Nairn, 70, Harlan, died Monday, Sept. 26 in Harlan.    Services will be held Saturday, Oct. 8 at 11 a.m. at Rohde Funeral Home in Kingsley with burial in the Greenwood Cemetery at Pierson.  A memorial prayer service will be held Friday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Harlan. Friends may call Friday from 2-7 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

    CHICAGO, IL -- Portsmouth native Jen Davidson won gold in female 4-way formation skydiving at the 2016 World Parachuting Championships this month at Skydive Chicago.

Harlan Community High School celebrated homecoming week this week with a series of dress-up days.  Tuesday was Generation Day, and these students and teachers got in the spirit.  Underclassmen dressed up as babies while upperclassmen and teachers dressed up as older individuals.

    ELK HORN -- After a comprehensive search that started in the spring of 2015, the board of directors and staff of the Museum of Danish America are announcing the selection of Rasmus Thøgersen as its new executive director.    Thøgersen (pronounced too-er-sen) is from Hellerup, the suburb north of Copenhagen in Denmark.