News from neighbors
Harchelroad Motors sold to Wolf Auto
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Aug. 25 — Family ownership of one of Chase County, Nebraska’s oldest businesses came to an end Monday with Harchelroad Motors of Imperial, Nebraska, and Wauneta, Nebraska, selling to Mike and Denise Petko of Wolf Auto Group.
Petko co-owns car dealerships with his father-in-law, Dave Wolf. Among them are Wolf Auto Ogallala, where Petko has partnered in business with Dave for six years and lived full time for two years.
Wolf Auto Group includes dealerships in Kimball, Scottsbluff and Ogallala, all in Nebraska.
Petko and Michelle Harchelroad, majority owner of Harchelroad Motors, signed the papers Tuesday, transferring ownership of the car dealerships to Petko and Wolf Auto.
In Harchelroad Motors, Wolf Auto gets an 80-year-old, four-generation family business that Harvey Harchelroad started as a six-person shop. In 1952, after the death of Harvey, his son, Gene, took over the daily operations. After 50 years of operation, Gene passed the daily management of Harchelroad Motors over to his sons, Sid and Brian. The pair ran the dealership until Sid’s death in 2018 and Brian’s passing in 2019.
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Community support for Tjaden memorial comes in ‘piece by piece’ at livestock sale
GRANT TRIBUNE- SENTINEL, Aug. 11 — Emotions gripped the Perkins County 4-H family as a still-grieving community displayed an outpouring of support to the memory of 2-year-old Oakley Tjaden during this year’s fair livestock sale.
The young daughter of Casey and Nicole Tjaden and sister to Porter, Parker and Cora unexpectedly died in April.
The Perkins County 4-H family and fair board members wanted to do something special for the Tjaden family in memory of Oakley. The two groups collaborated to have the Tjaden kids bring Cora’s bucket calf into the ring for a rollover auction after the 4-H portion sale was complete. What followed was moving, leaving barely a dry eye in the crowd.
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Mascot change could cost up to $400,000
YUMA PIONEER, Aug. 19 — Yuma School District-1 is projecting it will cost approximately $400,000 to change from the current Indians mascot.
A timeline for making the switch to a new mascot was approved by the Yuma -1 Board of Education during its regular meeting.
Senate Bill 21-116 was passed by the Colorado Legislature this past spring, requiring all schools to eliminate Native American-themed mascots by June of 2022, or face a monthly fine of $25,000.
The district is soliciting mascot suggestions from the community until Sept. 15. The board of education will review the submitted suggestions at its Sept. 20 meeting, narrow the list and then get more public feedback on the finalists through Oct. 13.
A new mascot will be selected at the November meeting. That will be followed by logo development, which will need to be completed by January so the district can begin preparing to order new uniforms for the fall sports.
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