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The Lady Red Raiders traveled to Alexandria on Thursday, November 7th to play Hanson in Region 5 action. The Red Raiders battled but came up short in 4 sets with scores of 14-25, 25-21, 17-25, and 22-25. Ravyn Medricky and Hannah Holzbauer led the attack throwing down 11 kills along with Brylie Link adding 6 on the night. Braxton Nedved dished out 28 assists in the match. Medricky led all servers with 11 points/5 aces, Libby Kotab tallied 8 points and Brianna Fuchs added 7 points/2 aces.
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The Lady Red Raiders hosted the Fighting Cougars of McCook Central/Montrose in the first round of region play on Tuesday, November 5th. The Lady Red Raiders swept the Cougars in three straight sets with scores of 25-21, 25-22, and 25-23.
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Pete Kazena is being honored as Wagner’s November Veteran of the Month. Kazena enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on August 26th of 1976 and after serving for three years was honorably discharged from service on August 29th of 1979. After enlisting in the Marines, Kazena was given a choice between three Marine Corps Recruit Depots (MCRD) to attend his basic training. His three choices were Parris Island, San Diego and Camp Lejeune. Kazena chose MCRD San Diego. After completing his basic training, Kazena was then sent to Camp Pendleton in CA for four weeks for Infantry Training School as his Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) was 0311 Infantry. He had originally put in to be a truck driver, but the Marine Corps picked Kazena’s MOS for him and he was randomly selected him for infantry. As part of his training, he was trained for combat duty.
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Wagner Rotary Club had a full house on Wednesday, November 6th. Harvest is over for the farmers, and we enjoyed seeing each other over a meal. President Weber gave a blessing for the food and fellowship. Judene Irvine was a guest of Amanda Bechen.
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One of the oldest established churches in Charles-Mix County is the Greenwood Presbyterian Church. The town, now village of Greenwood, had opened a post office in 1859 with 1859 being the only date on record of the beginning of the town of Greenwood. The post-office remained in operation until 1965. The town’s name of Greenwood actually comes from the naming of the post-office itself, which was called Greenwood because of a grove of trees that was near the original town site.
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