HARLAN -- Harlan Community High School’s Foreign Language Club is taking a group of 21 to tour Peru for a little more than a week to see sights such as Machu Picchu.    The group is comprised of 13 students, six adults and two teachers. The trip will last a total of nine days.    In Peru, the group will be able to see famous tourist attractions such as Machu Picchu, an Incan citadel settled almost 8,000 feet high in the Andes Mountains.

REGIONAL -- When’s the last time you took into consideration whether a car would have cup holders? A door? How about a rear windshield?    Penumbra – lovingly nicknamed “Penny” by the team – is the first of the solar cars made by the PrISUm Solar Car Team that has many of these features.    The team stopped by Shelby County Monday afternoon after running ahead of schedule on their Sun Run 99-county tour across Iowa.

IRWIN -- Most people don’t sign up to live in close quarters.    David Tietsort of Irwin is not most people. Tietsort has decided to build a tiny house based on a trailer. The home can be hitched onto the back of the man’s truck and taken anywhere.    The “tiny house movement” as it has come to be called is both an architectural and social movement.

HARLAN -- The Harlan Municipal Utilities Board of Trustees has extended CEO Ken Weber’s employment contract for another three years, ending Sept. 30, 2020.    The contract calls for a 3 percent per year increase in salary beginning with $123,600 on Oct.

HARLAN -- Harlan’s Aviation 8-ball Club is hosting its 72nd annual Father’s Day Breakfast on Sunday, June 18 at the airport.    The breakfast will be from 7:30-11 a.m. on Sunday. It will have pancakes, eggs, bacon and drinks such as coffee, juice and milk available.

PANAMA -- Scott and Dena Leinen of Harlan announce the engagement of their daughter, Kelsey to Taylor Assmann both of Woodbine. Taylor is the son of Larry and Chris Assmann, Panama.    The couple plans to marry August 19 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Panama.

    HARLAN -- Rich and Bev Goshorn of Harlan will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at an open house on Sunday, June 25 from 2-5 p.m. at the Harlan Golf and Country Club. Friends and relatives are invited to attend.

 ELK HORN -- Taking over for a local legend isn’t easy, but the process has certainly been a smooth one so far for new Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton baseball coach Trevor Miller. Miller’s Spartans stayed undefeated Friday night with an 11-1, five-inning rout of Earlham, then improved to 10-0 Saturday by beating a pair of 3-A teams (Atlantic and Perry) in the Atlantic Tournament.

 CLARINDA -- The unbeaten streak reached 13 games for the Harlan Community baseball team Thursday night as the top-ranked Cyclones swept a doubleheader at Clarinda, 15-1 and 13-1, and have now outscored the opposition 150-27 on the season. HCHS, which has won nine straight games by the 10-run rule, utilized a seven-run third inning in game one and a six-run fourth in game two, finishing off the Cardinals in five and six innings, respectively.