New Lutheran pastor to be installed

The Platte Valley Lutheran Church is starting the new year with a new pastor – Rev. Randolph Schnack. He will be installed at 4 p.m. Jan. 3 at the Platte Valley Lutheran Church. Because of the installment ceremony, there will not be a morning worship.

The church works on a call system and when he was asked to come to Saratoga, he had never heard of the town.

“When the congregation called me, I looked into Saratoga,” Schnack said. “Everything looked really wonderful and I really liked the idea of coming here.”

When Schnack was very young, he traveled though Wyoming, and until now that was his o...