Clean-up

On Wednesday, 550 East Sac County 5th - 12th grade students and staff joined students from Ridge View (formerly Crestland-Schaller and Gavla-Holstein), Sac County workers, and other volunteers to clean up 4800 acres of land near the Nemaha area that had been hit by the tornado on Saturday evening while we were turkey hunting over by Oto (see here). There were a total of over 1300 volunteers that included those with tractors, trucks, or wagons, those who made food and brought it to the workers, those that cooked lunch and served it to us, and those of us who walked the fields cleaning up debris. Tasha and I both helped in the clean up, but we were separated, so I didn't get any pictures of her and her group. Though I do believe that she is WAY in the back of the last photo because almost all of the East Sac students were helping with the last field. There are some great photos of the day here on Facebook that a gal from the area took.

Happy 65th Birthday Dad Bettin!!!

We hope you are enjoying your new recliner.
We love you!!
Todd, Teresa, Natasha, Katelyn,
Mom Bettin and Chris

Spring Turkeys

Just the other day I opened my window in my classroom and it smelled so wonderful outside. I sent a text to Todd and told him it had to be getting close to turkey season, cause I could feel and smell it outside.  Well...youth turkey season was this last weekend and what a weekend it was. We hunted Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday morning. The girls ended up getting turkeys within about an hour of each other on Sunday morning.

Saturday evening we decided that we wanted to stay in the cabin and watch movies because the girls were tired and it looked like it was going to rain. Thank goodness we did. Earlier that day we had discussed hunting over at a friend's place by Castana, which is less than 10 miles from Mapleton and was in the path of the tornado that hit and devastated the town. Needless to say, we had MANY family and friends who knew we were over in the area (Oto is 20 miles north of Mapleton) and who called or texted through out the night to find out if we were ok.  It was fine at the cabin. Unfortunately for those in Mapleton , Early, and the surrounding areas of Sac County, I can not say the same.