HAYES CENTER, Neb. (AP) – A lack of volunteer help has led the Hayes Center Lions Club to cancel this year’s “Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous,” an event the group has hosted for 10 years. Rendezvous coordinator Doris Vlasin tells the McCook Daily Gazette that several club members have moved away in recent years and a number of others are simply no longer involved in events. The event offered a historical experience that recreated the 1872 visit by Russia’s Grand Duke Alexis for a buffalo hunt led by Buffalo Bill Cody, General George Custer and General Phil Sheridan. Those attending Hayes Center’s rendezvous could participate in everything from throwing tomahawks to shooting black powder rifles, as well as having tea on the prairie and listening to tales of the Old West.