After all the cold, wet and windy inclement weather we had this year, everyone was concerned about the farmers and their crops in the fields. However, the crops are looking great! The corn was knee high by the fourth of July. All of the other crops are doing well so all is well on the home front.Congratulations to Sid and Anna Mae Berghorst, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Forrester Center in Rock Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday. You know summer has arrived when you hear that strong voice from the ball diamond giving the teams the word that it was time to "Play ball!" The Steen team has done this. Their first game of the season was Friday night, July 1, at the Steen ball diamond. The game began promptly at 8 p.m. They played Beaver Creek but do not have the score. Next week Steen will play at Sioux Center, Iowa. Hope to see you there.Overnight guests in the Winnie Scholten home on Sunday evening, July 3, were a former Steen area resident and a relative of Winnie’s, Marylin Scholten, and several of her friends from Michigan and Wisconsin. They left Monday morning to continue the tour they were taking.The Steen Senior Citizens had their July meeting Tuesday, July 5, at the Steen Community Building. Games were played and lunch was served. Weekend guests in the Art and Henrietta Boeve home were their daughter and son-in-law, Anita and Gregg Bosch, and their daughter, Mikayla, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Greg and Michelle VanWyhe and family and Glen and Ann Boeve. The Steen community was surprised to hear that the Jim Harsma family has moved from their home in Steen back to the Sandbulte farm near Hills. Steen residents will miss them but wish the best for them. Art and Henrietta Boeve attended a Boeve family reunion at the Hull, Iowa, park on Monday, July 4. Also attending were Greg and Michele VanWyhe and children and Glen and Ann Boeve. Guest Day at United Methodist Church in Luverne will begin at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13. The speaker is Jerry Carl, CEO at Sioux Valley Luverne Medical Center. Steen Reformed Church will sponsor "An Evening in the Park" Sunday, July 10. There will be special music and ice cream bars. It is a very nice evening and everyone is welcome!Everyone gets so excited when a new baby arrives and we all want to hear its name. This past week on Monday we observed the birth of our nation. After reading this article titled "They Called It America," I decided we all should know why that name was chosen. They Called It AmericaBy Rabbi SilverGod built him a continent of glory, and filled it with treasures untold. He studded it with sweet-flowing fountains, and traced it with long-winding streams. He carpeted it with soft-rolling prairies and columned it with thundering mountains. He graced it with deep-shadowed forests and filled them with song. Then He called unto a thousand peoples, and summoned the bravest among them. They came from the ends of the earth, each bearing a gift and a hope. The glow of adventure was in their eyes, and in their hearts the glory of hope. And out of the bounty of earth, and the labor of men; out of the longing of heart, and the prayer of souls; out of the memory of ages, and the hopes of the world, God fashioned a nation in love, and blessed it with purpose sublime. And they called it America.