Bladen News

When we asked readers to tell us about their cherished heirloom jewelry for a Valentine's Day feature, Turner had quite the story to tell about that cameo.

The cameo pin that Antonette Skupa Turner counts among her most treasured possessions has been lost in a snowstorm and run over by a car.

The then-4-year-old Cogburn, a B.B. red bantam rooster, lay across the door, preventing the other hen from leaving.

"It was a godsend," said Duane "Dewey" Lienemann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln extension educator in Webster County, of the weekend rainfall.

A harvest bee is essentially when a community comes together to help a family if they can't harvest on their own.