G-R grad soaring into Hay Springs as new counselor

  • Courtesy Photo Emilee Wells, the new counselor for Hay Springs Public Schools, is pictured here with her husband Wade and their son Buck.
    Courtesy Photo Emilee Wells, the new counselor for Hay Springs Public Schools, is pictured here with her husband Wade and their son Buck.

    By Heidi Beguin Emilee (Elwood) Wells was planning to be a dentist when she graduated from Gordon-Rushville High in 2013. She was a Rural Health Opportunities Program (RHOP) recipient attending Chadron State College.

    But in March of that first year, “I decided that science was not what I wanted to pursue. I changed my major to agriculture education and then halfway through my sophomore year, I tran…