Western Nebraska well-represented in Lincoln Saturday

By Shari Friedel

The Grant Tribune-Sentinel

Perkins and surrounding counties were well-represented in Lincoln Saturday, Sept. 10 with Ogallala’s Cowboy Capital Chorus helping to provide the National Anthem at the Cornhusker football game; a video of Perkins County’s Poppe Farms shown during the third quarter of the football game; and Marcia Swan of Grant and Diane Way of Imperial being honored at half-time of the UNL volleyball game.

The singing of the National Anthem in front of the more than 86,000 in the crowd at the football game included Leon Regier, Mark Wendell and Tom Kraus of Grant; Arlin Wine of Wauneta; Joe Dunn and Vance Nelson of Ogallala; and Bill Daly of Arthur, members of the Cowboy Capital Chorus who joined approximately 100 other barbershoppers across the state. “It was a lot of fun to do that kind of thing,” said Regier. “It was great to be able to sing for Husker Nation. It’s not often you get to perform for that many people.”

Anyone wanting to catch the CCC at their next performance can do so at the Ogallala Rendezvous Saturday, Sept. 17, 5:30 p.m. at the Rendezvous Square.

ag video

Poppe Farms was featured on the Jumbotron at Memorial Stadium in a 30-second video of their own creation during the third quarter of the football game.

According to Blake Poppe, they only had about 24 hours to make a video, a request by Brandon Meyer, an employee of Husker Athletics, in celebration of Ag Day at the Husker game.

Blake and his brother Alex threw some ideas around and came up with a clip featuring the two tossing a football and leading a “Go Big Red” chant, which, according to Blake had the whole stadium involved.

The video can be viewed on Blake’s facebook page.

volleyball

During half time at the volleyball game, former Husker volleyball players Marcia Swan of Grant and Diane Way of Imperial were honored as players on the first UNL volleyball team under Title IX which is celebrating its 50th year in recognizing women’s sports as a collegiate teams. Marcia was a senior at the time.