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The 19th annual Lion’s Club Basketball tournament was another successful event this past weekend when fifty-five teams in the 4th-8th grade took to the courts at Bayard High School, Bridgeport High School, and the Prairie Winds Community Center. Games consisted of four six-minute quarters with overtime as needed and teams were seeded into a single elimination bracket by their own wins in pool play, then head-to-head, then point differentials. The young roundballers came from all over the Nebraska panhandle, as well as eastern Wyoming to take part in the popular event. Bridgeport had six boys and girls teams compete, with the boys taking the runner-up spot in the eighth-grade division, while the fourth- and eighth-grade girls each won the championship. Above is the fourth-grade team. SARAH STRAWN

While speech season has wound down for most of the team, posters have been disassembled, and bags and tripods returned to the closet until next year, five Bridgeport spots have been secured at the

BRIDGEPORT—The Arbor Day Foundation’s Community Tree Recovery program, a national program underwritten by FedEx and Foundation members, aims to replace trees in communities affected by natural disasters throughout the United States. The City of Bridgeport has received funding from the Arbor Day Foundation Tree Recovery Program to receive 75 free trees to improve the public benefit that trees provide to Bridgeport citizens. To ensure a fair distribution, 25 trees have been designated for various public spaces where Bridgeport citizens spend their time. The remaining 50 trees will be distributed at the Arbor Day Celebration event to qualified Bridgeport residents who complete an online application in the order of first come, first served, on April 23rd at 1:00 p.m. at the Prairie Winds Community Center (PWCC). Tree size will range from four feet to twelve feet tall, evergreens will be no less than 18 inches.