With gratitude, we’re able to celebrate the birth of our nation, Monday, July 4! There are events and activities for the whole family to enjoy or participate in. • Liberty Fireworks is sponsoring the July 4th Parade with the theme Red, White, and Blue, We Love You! The parade begins at 10:00 a.m.

Immortalized into the 2022 Nebraska Sandhills Cowboy Hall of Fame, are three Cherry County cowboys. They were inducted Saturday, June 11, 2022 at the Cherry County Fairgrounds.

Atkinson, NE - “Time has just flown by since our last convention in September of 2021. After the convention in Valentine the board decided that we needed to move the convention back to the spring-like it has been since the Sandhills Cattle Association started holding our annual convention and trade show,” organizers said. “This year we started our 83rd annual Convention and trade show on Thursday, May 26, with our 25th annual Golf Classic at the Atkinson-Stuart Country Club. We had another great turnout on this beautiful golf course this year with 40 golfers. The day began with our usual shotgun start at 10:00 a.m., and the teams had a day full of fun on this course.”

The 59th annual Circle C Celebration in Cody was held May 28, 2022, and dawned sunny and bright. After the parade and kids games, the annual Horseshoe Tourney and Rodeo began. Concessions were run by the Cody United Methodist Church.

What Heath and Courtney Bristol had at first was Frosty’s Drive-in. This spring, they opened as Bulldoggers BBQ which was born out of a desire to bring in a style of cooking more in line with their background.

His mother’s love and compassion is what allowed Valentine to have Dave Dent as the voice of KVSH for 53 years. He was the youngest of two sons, and three daughters living on a farm in Creighton, NE. “We struggled. You made enough to eat and that was about it. She thought I should be a radio announcer - just out of the blue.”