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2016 Holiday Hours

Here’s a quick reminder of the closings and modified hours remaining in the 2016 calendar year that all stores will observe:

All Stores Except Andy’s Express

  • 4th of July – closed
  • Labor Day – closed
  • November 23 – close at 5pm
  • Thanksgiving Day – closed
  • December 10th, Anderson Christmas Party – see GM for store closing times
  • Christmas Eve – closed
  • Christmas Day – closed
  • December 26 – normal hours
  • New Year’s Eve – normal hours

Andy’s Express

  • 4th of July – normal hours
  • Labor Day – normal hours
  • November 23 – normal hours
  • Thanksgiving Day – open 8-5
  • December 10th, Anderson Christmas Party – close at 5pm
  • Christmas Eve – open 8-5
  • Christmas Day – closed
  • December 26 – normal hours
  • New Year’s Eve – normal hours

*Note: Full time employees at Andy’s Express working during a company holiday will receive time-and-a-half pay.

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AFSJ sells tires and heads to NASCAR!!!

Congratulations to Steve Snapp and his team at Anderson Ford in St Joe.  Ford gave their team tickets to NASCAR for being number two in the KC Region and number ten in the nation during the tire sale  last month.  What a huge accomplishment and awesome talent we have at AAG!!!

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Anderson Ford baseball team rallies to Area 5 Legion title

 Anderson Ford saved its best for last.

Jon Opfer came on in relief and drove in a pair of runs in the final two innings to help Anderson Ford earn a 9-6 victory over Union Bank in 10 innings to claim the A-5 American Legion championship Tuesday at Sherman Field.

Anderson Ford Advances to the National Division state tournament in Norfolk and will face Omaha Central. Union Bank will face Creighton Prep at Omaha Skutt in the American Division. Both tournaments begin Saturday with both games tentatively slated for 10 a.m.

Anderson Ford defeated Union Bank 3-1 Monday to remain alive.

Union Bank took a 5-2 lead into the top of the ninth before Anderson rallied on four hits, including a pair of infield hits, to tie the game. Chase Lauver was hit by a pitch and Logan Cale singled. With one out, Austin Herzog reached on an infield hit before Wade Deist singled up the middle to drive in a run. Opfer’s infield single scored Cale, and Barnes laid down a bunt to score Herzog. Opfer retired Union Bank in order in the ninth to send the game to extra innings.

“We’ve done a good job of bunting in this tournament. We had three squeezes that have worked and our bunt game was kind of an answer to their bunt game,” said Anderson coach Lanny Bolles. “We had to do that because Union Bank sure knows how to bunt.”

Luke Recker got the winning rally started when he was hit by a pitch. He came home when Chase Lauver’s bunt was mishandled and the throw sailed wide of third base. Union Bank got a pair of outs before Herzog tripled in another run and then scored on Opfer’s single to right. Wade Deist, who walked, came in on a single by Kaden Barnes.

Union Bank got a run when Spencer Scheer singled in Riley Ward, who also reached on a hit, but Joe Richter, who relieved Opfer, got two fly balls to end the game.

 “There’s just no quit in these guys. In the 10th, we knew we had a nice lead and had to pitch to contact. They had a couple of great strokes to get it started,” said Bolles. “They hit a couple to the wall, so they could have tied it there.”

Anderson Ford took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Opfer singled and scored on a bases-loaded walk. Union Bank answered in the bottom of the inning when Riley Ward doubled and scored on a wild pitch.

Anderson went back on top in the third when Braden Dey singled and came around on a dropped fly ball. Union Bank responded in the bottom of the inning when Scheer and Brock Wordekemper both singled, Scheer stole third and scored on a safety squeeze by Derek Kolbush.

Union Bank took a 4-2 lead in the fifth inning. Scheer singled, Wordekemper sacrificed and Kolbush singled before Scheer scored on a wild pitch. Tyler Crouse drove in Kolbush with a single to left.

Wordekemper singled to lead off the seventh and three straight bunts — a sacrifice by Kolbush, a bunt single by Crouse and a safety squeeze by Micah Hoage — brought him in.

“You expect the area tournament to be close games and the guys know that. This ended up higher scoring, but it was low scoring to start,” Bolles said. “This gives us so much momentum. It was a matter of getting the guys to believe they were good enough to win games like this.

“There’s no sugar-coating it. We were 4-20 last spring, but these guys kept at it to find a way to work on their craft. Our record doesn’t look like a championship team, but we just kept believing.”

(article and photo from Lincoln Journal Star, 7/20/16)

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Cole Anderson Memorial Fun Shoot was a BIG success!

Since the passing of our son Cole, we wanted to do an annual event in honor of his life.  His passion was shooting trap and having fellowship with others around that sport.  We began annually hosting the Cole Anderson Memorial Trap Shoot at the Izaak Walton shooting range, where he spent many hours perfecting his shooting which ultimately led to him becoming a first team All American in that sport. To do that, one must register as a shooter with the ATA (Amateur Trap Association) and travel to different states to compete.  Cole always had a desire to help others in that sport, so as part of this event we have the (Fun Shoot) for those people that aren’t registered shooters and/or who have never shot trap before.  This year, we had the honor to give an award to Steve Snapp for being the top shooter in the Fun Shoot, where he shot 25 straight without a miss.  I think Steve should shoot more often competitively as he obviously has a strength in that area.
Next year our goal would be to do the same thing, however start a little later in the day and have people stick around and enjoy free BBQ and good conversations with friends, family, or co-workers. Thanks to all that came and Congrats again Steve on your great shooting.
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