HARLAN -- Leo and Aggie Gaul of Harlan will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on June 11. Their family is planning a card shower to help them celebrate.    Cards will reach them if sent to 1807 19th Street, Harlan, IA 51537.

    HARLAN -- Stanley and Joyce Christensen of Harlan will mark their 60th wedding anniversary on June 16.    The couple’s children and their spouses are Curt and Amy Christensen, Omaha; Beth Ann and Todd Brace, Defiance; Kyle and Suzanne Christensen, Defiance; and Joel and Valerie Christensen, Indianapolis, IN. The Christensens have 17 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. 

    HARLAN -- Ole and Betty Olson of Harlan will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on June 18 beginning with a 5 p.m. Mass at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan followed by a family dinner.    Their family is requesting a card shower in their honor. Cards will reach them if sent to 411 7th Street, Harlan, IA 51537.

    SHELBY-- Economic development efforts continue in Shelby this summer, as crews broke ground on the East Street streetscape project May 16.    The construction will be between Station Street and Center Street and will last 120 days from the day it began.

HARLAN -- Shelby County Relay for Life had a successful event Friday, June 3 in downtown Harlan, raising more than $103,000 for Cancer research.  Shown above, a number of walkers at the event carry the banner during a survivor’s walk.  See inside today’s Harlan News-Advertiser for a full photo page from Relay for Life.  (Photo by Sarah Muller)

    REGION -- Shelby County residents shouldn’t have to worry much about mosquitoes that transfer the Zika virus this summer, but there likely will be plenty of the insects around to spread other diseases, and generally make life miserable.    Ken Holscher, assistant professor of entomology at Iowa State University, said the Zika virus that has become prevalent mainly south of the United States likely will have a hard time making it far north

    COUNTY – Incumbent Shelby County Supervisors Steve Kenkel and Charles Parkhurst will retain their board seats following a convincing victory in Tuesday’s Republican primary election.    Kenkel earned 540 votes and Parkhurst tallied 478 votes, while newcomer and challenger Loren R.

 CRESTON -- Harlan Community finally played a pair of full seven-inning baseball games Thursday night and still won both by 10 runs, sweeping a Hawkeye Ten doubleheader at Creston, 13-3 and 12-2. Facing the best pitching they’ve seen during the first two weeks of the season, the 2nd-ranked (3-A) Cyclones continued to string together great at-bats in gradually chipping away against Panther junior Kadon Hulett in game one, then driving up Chase

 CRESTON -- The Harlan Community softball team continues to showcase a mix of promising potential and youthful inconsistency while playing .500 ball through the first two weeks of the season. On Thursday, the Cyclones committed 12 total errors in a doubleheader split at Creston, but used a four-run seventh-inning rally in game one to outlast the 14th-ranked (4-A) Panthers, 7-6, before losing the night cap 10-4. The twin bill split capped a wil