LOOKING BACK

August 1, 1996 Sunday afternoon hailstorm pounds crops near Firesteel 

A hail storm sliced through the area north of Isabel and Firesteel late Sunday afternoon, July 28. The storm cut a diagonal path from the Grand River near the Schneider and Kerstiens ranches, crossing Highway 65 just north of the Derry and Harold Meyer ranch. It continued in a south-easterly direction all the way to Timber …