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The Royal Family KIDS Western Nebraska branch is hosting an open house this Sunday to inform the public and potential volunteers about their opportunities to help children in the area who have only known a life of abuse and neglect. The information session will be held at the Christian Life Center in Sidney from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., according to Yvonne Donaldson, the program’s director. Royal Family KIDS is a worldwide organization devoted to helping abused, neglected and abandoned children. E...
With the creation of a new Talks and Treats teen book club there is once again a reading program for every age at the Sidney Public Library, said Eileen Nightingale, the children’s youth service librarian at the library. For four months now library staff has held the new teen reading program on the third Tuesday of every month. Teens in grades seven through 12 are encouraged to attend, Nightingale said. According to Nightingale how the reading club works is a different book is passed out to t...
When President Barack Obama stands in front of an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people outside of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21 it will be the 57th presidential inauguration this country has witnessed. This year however the president will technically partake in two inaugurations. Jan. 20 serves as the seventh time in history that - due to the date of inauguration falling on a Sunday - another swearing-in ceremony will be held that Monday. According to section one of the 20th amendment to the U.S....
Cheyenne County Community Center director Mike Namuth has been announced the winner of the 2012 Sidney Sun-Telegraph’s Weekly Football Pick’em Challenge. Namuth’s season record was 57-28. There were four other constants participating in the challenge this year. Close behind Namuth in the standings were Sidney Federal Savings and Loan President Steve Smith and American National Bank Vice President Bill Butkus, who both ended the challenge with a record of 55-30. Other participants included City...
Sidney’s West Elementary School auditorium went silent as approximately 45 parents sat in anticipation watching each of the 32 students nervously or confidently approach the microphone during the practice round of the annual Central West Spelling Bee competition this Wednesday. Students advanced to the front of the stage when their name was called and turned toward their word pronouncer, Carla Brauer. Brauer, who serves as the school counselor at Central and West Elementary, pronounced each w...
Words are powerful. Some people think that one can only understand the true power of words if they like to read or write. But words are not saved for bookworms or novelists - words are for everyone. Words are a part of everyday language. The way someone uses words, what words they use and how they say them can tell a story about them. Just by listening to someone speak one can infer things like where they are from, where they have been, sometimes their level of education and sometimes even the social cliques they associate themselves with. Hobb...
The Sidney East Expansion team is conducting a survey of potential homebuyers in the Sidney area. The expansion team is comprised of a collaboration of business leaders from Cabela’s as well as Sidney Regional Medical Center staff and City of Sidney officials. The goal being put forth by the team is to bring economic benefit to the community, according to Dennis Armstrong, a Cabela’s corporate architect. “It’s open to all residents, but we especially hope to hear from those who are in the market for a new home,” Armstrong said. Armstrong said t...
Sidney School District board members were informed of the fund-raising activity planning and the successful implementation of drug and alcohol screening at Sidney Middle School. New board member Doug Means also joined the board and committees for 2013 were formed. Tom Von Seggern was appointed once again as board president and Steve Mattoon was reappointed as board vice president. Deanna Kantor was reappointed as board secretary and Geri Anthony as treasurer. “Anytime you replace the s...
President Obama’s nomination of former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel for the position of U.S. Secretary of Defense on Jan. 7 has lead to concern by members of congress and pointed questions lingering to be answered as the process moves forward. “The work of protecting our nation is never done and we still have much to do. Chuck Hagel is the leader that our troops deserve; he is an American patriot,” Pres. Obama said when announcing Hagel’s nomination. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), who was just sworn...
Sidney City Manager Gary Person would like to draw to the attenion of Sidney residents an envelope that a lot of residential customers received in the mail last week. “The envelope said it’s a notification for all Sidney water customers and gives you every impression that it comes from the City of Sidney, but it does not,” Person said. Person said that instead he believes the notices were sent out by a company trying to sell customers insurance on their residential line. If looked at close...
First and second graders are starting off the new year by getting active at the Cheyenne County Community Center. About 60 kids turned out this year to participate in the annual First and Second Grade Basketball Skills Camp at the center. Community Center Sports Director Kasey Kantor, who serves as coordinator of the event, said that he believes the skills camp was started about six years ago by Jody O’Connell and has been helping young kids edge their way into the game of basketball ever since....
The dedicated volunteer service of Tim Lecher to North Elementary School has landed a $500 grant to the school from State Farm Insurance Company. The company offers the grant to employees who donate their time to local elementary schools. Lecher, whose son Diedrich is a third grader at North Elementary, not only completed the required 40 volunteer hours for the grant during the past year but also hopes to continue his service. Kathy Nienhueser the reading and writing coach at North Elementary...
Sidney’s North and South Elementary Schools ended the year 2012 with a pleasant surprise. The surprise however wasn’t from Santa Clause it was from McDonalds. On Nov. 14 this year McDonalds partnered up with the schools for their second year hosting McTeacher Nights. McTeacher Night is a fundraiser for the schools put on by McDonalds, school booster club members and school staff where a percentage of the night’s proceeds at McDonalds is donated to the elementary schools. Nikki Juengst, boost...
Lawmakers raced against the clock this New Year’s Eve and successfully avoided the dreaded “fiscal cliff” for now. But along with this avoidance, an important bill - the farm bill that has been worked on for the past five years - was extended instead of undergoing a new installment. The extension of the farm bill extension threw out the new version that had been progressing and approved through the senate; but it had not been approved by the house. Instead it extended the same programs that...
Gina Hanley thought that last Friday afternoon was just the end of a normal week for her family and her, but that was before she got the call that changed her eased mind to terrified. Hanley had been trying to get ahold of her husband and when she finally did, she was told that her two sons were being driven to Sidney Regional Medical Center. “When I finally talked to him he told me the boys were in the ambulance on their way to the hospital and that Austin had almost drowned. I was in s...
The Sidney City Council meeting this Tuesday started off a little differently than most. It began with the recognition of heroic efforts by city personnel this past week in saving the lives of two boys. Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston asked the city workers who helped save 5-yr-old and a 9-yr-brothers from the pond at Legion Park this past Friday afternoon to attend the meeting. “The events of last week showed exactly what quality of workers we have,” Gaston said. “Those kinds of things you never...
Most mornings I am stirred awake by the loudest, most annoying alarm clock one could possibly imagine. I made it as annoying as possible for the fear that anything less would result in my inability to open my eyes and start the day, sleeping through the beginning of my workday. Regardless of the method I use to wake up, my feelings toward removing myself from my bed stay pretty constant. I don’t want to leave, ever. I usually roll over, look at the clock, turn off the alarm and my to-do list for the day races through my mind. The whole p...
The main proposals brought up to Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners and Cheyenne County Board of Equalization members Monday investigated to what degree the Cheyenne County Sheriff and SWAT forces should be allowed to assist other counties in the time of an emergency. “We’re proposing an agreement that is already in place in counties north of us,” county attorney Paul Schaub said. Proposed was a county sheriff interlocal agreement between Cheyenne County, Deuel County and Garden Count...
Two boys were pulled from the icy waters of the pond at Legion Park by city workers avoiding what could have been a much worse tragedy, possibly even drowning deaths. Heroic action by city employee Tom VonSeggern and four other city employees, very possibly saved the life of two brothers, Friday afternoon in Sidney. Around 3:30 p.m. two children, whose names have not been released, fell through the ice and into the pond at the local park, according to information from Sidney Police Chief Mike Br...
Jan. 1, 2013 marked the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which some say is the crowning achievement of his presidency. Emancipation Proclamation analyst Douglas Miller summed up the proclamation as a declaration freeing all slaves in enemy territory, meaning any territory inhabiting people in rebellion against the federal government. Miller wrote that few slaves were freed immediately after the proclamation because the proclamation did not apply to slaves in border states fighting for the...
With the New Year comes a new evaluation of the Cheyenne County Community Center, according to center director Michael Namuth. “This past spring our community center board started a strategic planning session to develop a vision statement for the next three to five years for the community center,” Namuth said. Namuth said that board members decided that they needed to do a needs assessment of the community and surrounding areas of Sidney to see if the center is meeting the public’s needs. The s...
Need a little getaway from your weekly routine? There are 27 spots left for The Branson Show Extravaganza trip sponsored by the Cheyenne County Community Center in conjunction with Diamond Tours, Inc. Though some might think adventure is for younger generations this trip is in place to give senior citizens a worthwhile trip and a chance to get out of town. Although the trip was created for the seniors of Sidney; however, that does not mean it’s closed to the rest of the community, senior community director at the Cheyenne County Community Cente...
Sidney Regional Medical Center members are teaming up once again with Cheyenne County Community Center activity director Kiersten Richards to prepare for their fourth annual Get Fit Stay Fit Challenge. The challenge committee includes: Richards, Sidney Regional Medical Center director of public relations Evie Ranslem-Parsons, Sidney RMC director of nutrition services Ashley Houtwed, and community development director Megan McGown. Richards said that registration forms for the event could be...
Steven Olson was sworn in this morning as a Cheyenne County Commissioner – 1st District in the Cheyenne District County Courtroom by Cheyenne County Clerk Beth Fiegenschuh....
With winter coming on strong, flu vaccines are still available and a good idea to prevent sickness, said Sidney Regional Medical Center PA-C Mitch Muhs. “Normally in this part of the world we often times don’t see a lot of influenza until January or February and then on into March and April,” Muhs said. “This year we started seeing influenza in October.” “Influenza gets a lot of press every year because it kills a lot of people. People think it’s just whatever and you take cold medicine and it g...
