September 2022

The 7th annual “Pink Pumpkin Walk” will be held on Oct. 15 at 11a.m. at Indian Cave State Park. Proceeds will go to help and support the fitght against Breast Cancer during October, which is recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This walk is for all cancer survivors and in memory of loved ones. Preregister by Oct. 1. Registration fee is $25 and includes an adult t-shirt. Youth registration is $10 and includes a shirt. Late registrations will not be guaranteed a t-shirt. Call to order a personalized pink pumpkin in memory of a loved one, for those who have beat cancer and those currently with their fight. The cost for a pumpkin is $10 due by Oct. 1. No orders accepted after that date. You can take the pumpkin home with you at the conclusion of the event.

Arbor Lodge State Historical Park hosted its annual Table Creek Rendezvous last Saturday and Sunday. Re-enactors were on hand to demonstrate blacksmithing, fabric dying and printing, seed beadwork, rigid heddle weaving, leather crafting, Dutch oven cooking, fire building, and other skills, as well as answer questions from visitors.

In bone-dry Banner County, clouds of dirt drift into the sky as rumbling tractors till the sun-baked soil. In some fields, the ground is still too dry to start planting winter wheat.