June 16, 1988

Residents of Oak Ridg Manor are helped aboard a TRAC bus while some share an embrace with family and friends as young people look on.

The water was shot from all directions as the blaze engulfed two wings of Oak Ridge

Manor and threatened the third. Firefighters used 1.1 million gallons of water to extinguish the four-hour fire.

Firefighters battled 94 degree temperatures and hot flames while sweat poured out of their bodies beneath protective clothing. A firefighter gets a well-deserved and much needed cooling off after battling the blaze for several hours Sunday afternoon.

Oak Ridge resident Mary Pulford gets a comforting hug from a friend at Regina Medical Center cafeteria following the fire. Though most residents escaped with just the clothes on their backs, no residents were seriously injured or killed in the fire.

May 9, 1963

Digging was done over the weekend for the foundation on which a monolith in memory of the late John Daly will be erected and dedicated by the Eagles lodge of Hastings later this month. Dedication of the Monolith of the Ten Commandments” in Daly’s memory will be held May 25 at 2:30 p.m. where the monolith is located. Shown at work are Larry Schmitz in the hole, and above him, from left, Earl Rockstead, George Drometer, Frank Doffing, Don McPherson, and Harry Swanson.

Hastings Star Gazette, April 10, 2003

The Hastings Kindergarten through sixth grade Folkstyle Wrestling state champions. Front row, left to right, Brendan Eichmann, Jesse Wellman, Nate Williams, Josh Lohmann; second row, coach Adam McMenomy, Casey Langhans, Jacob Strickland, coach Rick Langhans; third row Devin Hubbard, Isaac Bauer, Corey Latuff, Eric Bauer, fourth row, coach Nick Zajac, Bobby Petersen, Kevin Bauer, Tyler Rohr, Isaac Eichmann, coach Paul Vaith; fifth row, coach Dave Eichmann, Shane Loesch, Luke Vaith, Jeff Engstrom; sixth row, John Wahlstrom, Zach Rohr, Kevon Kelleher; seventh row, coach Kevin Bauer coach Steve Engstrom, coach Jim Rohr, coach Ray Strickland.

Those in charge of completing the new baseball field have been fighting a long, hard battle with much to be done, and in spite of shortness of time now, and the long road ahead, it is almost certain that the new grandstand will be ready, the ticket booth in place, the turnstiles ready to click next Sunday afternoon when the Hastings league team takes the field against the Prairie Island Indians.  The grass infield may is admittedly rough, and the balls hit to the outfield may take sudden and unorthodox jumps because of the unevenness of the sod, but the grass is growing, and the field is completely sodded. Men who can swing a hammer with some degree of accuracy have been at a premium at the construction of the grandstand, and Mike Klein in charge, has been about driven wild by inexpert or careless work, but all in all, it show up as a good job, solid, and well built, It is expected to seat 1,400.

The Hastings Gazette, February 29, 1963

Still able to fit into their old military uniforms, despite tight fits in some cases, these men were present Saturday night at the VFW’s annual “Come As You Were” party. Kneeling in front are, left to right, Glenn Morcomb, LaVern Giefer, Nick Snyder, Herman Pasch, and Othmar Meier; back row, Bob Miller, Gilbert Gergen, Charles Reuter, Bob Reinardy, Red King, Art Zgoda, Wendell Hall and Don Hubley.