Christmas service at Alexanderwohl The community is invited to attend a Christmas Day service starting at 10 a.m. at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church in Goessel. An organ prelude begins at 9:45 a.m. by Jason Peters, organist. Pastor Linda Ewert will give the meditation and interim pastor Peter Emery will sing, ?O Holy Night? in German. Everyone is welcome. The church is […]

hillsboro senior center We will have footcare on Tuesday, Dec. 15, and hearing aid checks with Haris Zafar Dec. 16. For more information, call us. Our Christmas dinner is Friday, Dec. 18, but no more reservations are being taken. We are closed Dec. 24-25 for the holiday. Anyone who would like a frozen dinner for those days is asked to […]

Night in the Barn set for Dec. 19, 20 Tabor Mennonite Youth Fellowship will present their annual living nativity, Night in the Barn from 6-8 p.m. Dec. 19 and 20 in the barn of Maynard Knepp and Carol Duerksen between Goessel and Hills?boro. A llama that gives kisses, a mother cow and calf, bell-wearing sheep and people-loving donkeys are among […]

HILLSBORO SENIOR CENTER Everyone is welcome to stop by and play bingo Dec. 9. Our jam session is Dec. 10 and it?s a lot of fun. For those wanting footcare, we encourage them to come by Tuesday, Dec. 15. Haris Zafar is here Dec. 16 to do hearing aid checks. The center?s Christmas dinner is Friday, Dec. 18, and David […]

? colleen k. thompson, 76, a school bus driver, died Dec, 7 at Newton. She was born Nov. 5, 1939, to Raymond and Leota (Reed) Tomlinson at Eureka. Survivors include daughters Vickie and husband Vincent Schroeder of Marion and Gale Walker of Durango, Colo.; four grandchildren, four step-grandchildren; two great grandchildren and five step- great-grandchildren. The service will be at […]

Kid Scoop offered a timely resource How excited I was when I opened the Free Press last Tuesday and saw that the Kid Scoop topic was money. Our reading story in our second-grade reading book this week is about money?taken from the book, ?In the Money: A Book About Banking,? by Nancy Loewen. What a great tie-in to what we?re […]

Riley Loewen RILEY LOEWEN, senior Parents: Rich and Pam Loewen, Lisa Loewen Extra-curricular: Cheerleading, Leos, FFA, Ebenfeld MBY, National Honor Society, Spirit-N-Celebration. Hobbies/interests: Reading, swimming, singing, drawing. Future: I am planning to go to Tabor to major in education or counseling.       Nathan Simhiser NATHAN SIMHISER, sophomore Parents: Bill and Becky Simhiser Extra-curricular: Football, wrestling, Tech?nology Students Association. […]