Red Cloud Review: 2022 Highlights
2022 was a busy year in Red Cloud with lots of change happening and plans for future changes being made. While we do not have enough space to adequately honor every achievement and everything that happened this year, we do want to take some time to recognize some major events and personal accomplishments as we wind out the clock on another great year in the best small town in America.
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2023 Red Cloud Opera House performance schedule announced
The National Willa Cather Center is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Red Cloud Opera House restoration with a season of shows featuring fan favorites. Tribute performers will bring the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash back to the Opera House stage. The season will also feature theatre (Henrietta Solway and Cinderella), world-renowned opera soprano (and Red Cloud native) Sarah Arneson, as well as concerts from Blackberry Winter, Rascal Martinez and Midwest Dueling Pianos.
Most shows in the 2023 season will occur on the first Friday of each month and will start at 7:30pm. Purchase your tickets now for the Beatles Interactive Experience as tickets are selling fast! Tickets for all shows are available on willacather.org, by calling the box office at 402-746-2653, or at the Willa Cather Bookstore in downtown Red Cloud!
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Red Cloud Community Fund (RCCF) makes year end grants
The Red Cloud Community Fund awarded year end grants during its December meeting. This year, grants from September Month of Giving fundraising went to Heritage Tourism Development ($16,500), The Valley Child Development Center ($5,000), the RC Ballifeld Project ($1500), the Nebraska Trails Foundation for the proposed Recreation Trail project ($1500), the Hotel Garber project ($1300), and the Red Cloud Area Youth Account ($650).
Grants from the September campaign are made possible thanks to generous donations from supporters like you. Thank you. Grants throughout the year help RCCF with its ongoing support of The Valley Child Development Center, the Red Cloud Area Youth Account, Heritage Tourism Development, scholarships for traditional and non-traditional students, and other community needs. Please consider investing in the future of your hometown by making a gift today!
RCCF is a fund affiliated community of the Nebraska Community Foundation and all donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law. Contact RCCF Chair Jarrod McCartney at jmccartney@redcloudnebraska.com or Treasurer Dennis Hansen at 402-746-4202.
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BRAN selects Red Cloud, 7 other host communities, for its 41st annual ride across Nebraska
Cyclists from around the state and region will gather in Red Cloud on June 6-7. Participants in the annual "Bicycle Ride Across Nebraska" will spend the day in Red Cloud on June 6th, camp overnight at the City Park and at local lodging establishments, and depart for Hebron on the morning of June 7th.
BRAN utilizes its revenues for scholarships for high school students to attend Nebraska trade schools, colleges, universities or other post secondary education programs. In 2018, Red Cloud was awarded additional scholarship money for winning "Best Host Community." We want to win this award again. Please contact Jarrod McCartney at jmccartney@redcloudnebraska.com or 402-746-2653 if you want to be part of the planning committee or if your organization wants to host an event or meal. Fundraising events are strongly encouraged by both Heritage Tourism and the BRAN organizers.
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Local Legion Hall honors Pearl Harbor survivor, RC native Donald Stratton
Red Cloud's American Legion Post was officially renamed the Donald G. Stratton American Legion Post 238 during their November meeting. Stratton is a Red Cloud native whose memoir All the Gallant Men is a rare and gripping firsthand account of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Stratton passed away in February 2020 and is buried in the Red Cloud Cemetery.
Donald G. Stratton American Legion Post 238 is holding its meetings in the Scout Lodge, located in Hardwick Park near the intersection of Walnut and 4th Ave (Hwy 136). The lodge was recently refurbished by the City of Red Cloud. The American Legion and other local veterans organizations are exploring options for a possible permanent location and for a permanent location to display a piece of the USS Arizona that was donated by the Stratton family. If you're interested in learning more about these ideas or in making a donation to the American Legion--which is a nonprofit organization--contact Mike Goebel or Brad Frey. You can also follow the American Legion on Facebook.
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Back Alley Bicycles Wins Inaugural Heritage Tourism Christmas Decoration Contest
Todd and Lisa Mahin's Back Alley Bicycles is doing a lot to improve the charm and feel of downtown Red Cloud. This winter, their Christmas decorations put everyone in a festive spirit. Twisted Petal finished 2nd while Hometown Market finished 3rd. Red Cloud Animal Health and the Red Cloud Chief finished close behind.
Back Alley Bicycles will receive $100 in Chamber bucks from the Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce and a 20 inch replica leg lamp from the movie A Christmas Story from Heritage Tourism. We hope that this will become a traveling trophy for the contest in future years.
Twisted Petal will receive $70 in Chamber bucks and Hometown Market will receive $30.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest and to everyone who helped judge. Next year we will start the contest earlier with the goal of getting decorations up in time for the Chamber’s Shopping Extravaganza the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
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Revisit all of our fabulous "Get to Know" features from 2022!
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Andrea & Brad Frey
Owners: Abundant Life Honey, Republican Valley Rentals, and Frey Accounting
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Miles McDole
South Central State Bank, Red Cloud Community Fund
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Todd Mahin
Great Plains Communications, City of Red Cloud, Back Alley Bicycles, The M Guest House
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