The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/ libby/.

The Archer County Commissioners Court approved a request to turn the county owned little league baseball field into a practice softball field during its meeting Monday, Jan. 11.

Clifton Russell began showing animals at the Archer County Junior Livestock Show in the early ‘70s and showed multiple types of animals throughout high school. His father, Bob Russell, served on the original show board.

Ann and J.R. “Jack” Parkey’s involvement in the ACJLS began in the early 1980s when their son Robert (James Robert, IV) was a freshman at Holliday High School. Jack had recently returned to the county to run his family’s ranch in Dundee with Ann and their three children. Under the leadership of Jim Bob Wallace, ag teacher and FFA sponsor at Holliday, Robert set out to do a beef project. That was the beginning of over a decade of the Parkey’s service to the ACJLS.

One might say Mike Jacobs was the most valuable shower in the inaugural Archer County Junior Livestock Show in 1968. According to the Archer County News he had the Grand Champion Ewe, Grand Champion Barrow, Prize Gilt, and Grand Champion in the poultry division. He was in the seventh grade when his father, Jim Jacobs, got with Lawrence Berend and Brett Triplett to organize a livestock show for FFA and 4H members to exhibit a wide range of animals. His dad was the ag teacher in Windthorst at the time.

After a hard day at Burgess Manning, where he worked for 25 years, Rick Foreman would be greeted at home by his daughter Meri Beth. It was time to go to the pig barn and work with the hogs. It was 1998, and she was 9 years old when she decided to be a part of the Archer County Junior Livestock Show. Her interest was stirred by friend Amanda Womack who was showing pigs. Meri Beth was intrigued by the prospect. Rick and wife Charla, with a strong nudge from County Agent Marvin Henry, signed up to support Meri Beth’s passion.

Right now it is 37(f) in The Falls. It is just after noon and, according to yesterday’s forecast should be snowing right now. Very little precip has fallen so far. Anticipating the snowfall, I have a pot roast sitting in the cast iron Dutch oven atop our vintage cast iron stove. I’m happy with that.

Sister Barbara Schroeder, OSB, 91, of St. Scholastica Monastery, Fort Smith, Ark.

Robert Dale Barrett “Apache”, age 64, of Sadler and Windthorst, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 4, doing what he loved most, cowboying.