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Few things in life match the excitement of a child opening a colorfully-decorated gift box. The ribbons fly as the box is torn open in an exuberant curiosity. For some children, that event is rare. There are children as close as a few houses away and as far away as other continents where the box itself is a gift, and the book, pencils and few items inside are as gold. Operation Christmas Child, a program through Samaritan's Purse, started in 1993. It began with a request to send shoe boxes...
Tammy Jean (Amen) Schneider, 64, of Crook, passed away Saturday, November 6, 2021, in Crook. A memorial gathering will be held Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 11:00 A.M. at the Crook Community Center. Tammy was born August 28, 1957 in Sterling, CO to Robert and Jan (Kler) Amen. She first attended Crook High School and graduated from Caliche High School in 1975. Tammy was a member of the ASPCA. She enjoyed woodworking, her animals, and most of all loved spending time with her family. Tammy is...
Starting Monday, November 15, the Sidney city administration building’s north parking lot will be closed to replace the driving lane. The driving lane to drop off your bill will be closed. All streets will be open around the City Office and the Library. Please use the west or south door to access the city building for city business or payment drop off. To pay your bill online, go to the City of Sidney website www.cityofsidney.org and click “online payments.” Work on the driving lane is expected to take about two weeks, weather permi...
Two women, both who have served, sitting quietly. One more calm by appearance, the other with a touch of energy that is often perceived as confrontational. The long-used, and often forgotten, cliche “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” and “still waters run deep” are often forgotten when interacting with women like these. Appearances are often misleading, and experiences don’t necessarily line up with appearances. Female Veterans and Military endure much, yet their trauma’s, injuries, and p...
Paul Roberts was a college student at Wayne State University in Wayne, Nebraska. When not in classes, he would return home to Albion, Nebraska to help with his dad’s plumbing business. He was also an athlete who could run. At the end of three college semesters, he had sustained a knee injury which hampered his running ability. At about the same time, the Selective Service Board had sent him a draft notice. Before going right into the service, he was involved in an automobile injury accident. The Selective Service people allowed him 6 months t...
Two more volunteers have joined the ranks of PlainsWest CASA. One of the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) is returning to the office in a different role and the second is a first-time volunteer. Bridget Goding and Jason Nelke were sworn in as CASAs Tuesday, Nov. 2 in Cheyenne County District before the Honorable Judge Randin Roland. Goding was on staff with PlainsWest CASA until parenthood took her away from the office. She is returning as a volunteer. “Everything about the training w...
Ruby L. Jung, age 88, of Potter, NE passed away on Friday, October 29, 2021 at SRMC in Sidney. Cremation has been held. Memorial services will be held in the Spring of 2022 at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Potter Volunteer Fire Department or to the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. You may view Ruby’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at w...
Several weeks had passed since President Biden announced he’d be instituting a mandatory vaccine enforcement measure through the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The more time that elapsed, the more speculation there was that the president was bluffing. Last week he showed he wasn’t and established rules that require all businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure all their workers are either vaccinated by January 4 or are tested weekly and weari...
Sometimes I’m glad ghosts and ghouls aren’t as rampant aas television networks say they are. Quite honestly, if ghosts and other-worldly personalities could go in and out of dimensions that easily, the actual people who have gone on, what would stop those from the past from absolutely schooling us on how the world is being run? Imagine all of the editors of history suddenly meeting the players in that particular chapter in time. Imagine getting schooled on what really happened compared to wha...
This week we honor and celebrate out veterans. These are the men and women who have put their very lives at risk in order to keep the rest of us safe, to protect our God-given liberties, and to safeguard our American way of life. Every veteran is a highly valued and esteemed American patriot, so today I would like to share a recent story about what it takes to properly honor a veteran. Arthur R. Lewis was a soldier who never earned a purple heart or a silver star. He was a native of...
On Veterans Day, we honor the men and women who have served in our armed forces. If you’ve recently separated or retired from the military, or you will be leaving soon, you can be proud of the service you’ve provided to your country. But once you’re a veteran, away from the structure and imperatives of the military, you may need to take greater control over managing your finances and protecting your family. For starters, consider housing. When you were on active duty, you may have moved around frequently and found it more convenient to rent,...
Jesus began His ministry with a sermon about being a citizen of the kingdom of God and having the attribute of Divine love. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:” (Matthew 5:43-45) This is a very explosive and radical principle of non-retaliatory, non-resistant love. I...
On September 15th the Upper Niobrara White Natural Resources District (UNWNRD) hosted the 2021 Area 1 Range Judging contest in Alliance. Range Judging is a high school competition that challenges students to gain a better understanding of Nebraska rangelands. Range Judging enables each participant to learn how to recognize range plants, range sites and the need for proper grazing practices. NRDs work with the Society for Range Management, NRCS and UNL Extension to host Range Judging contests...
The Sandhills Rangeland Monitoring Cooperative (SRMC) is a rangeland monitoring project that seeks to link ranchers, scientists and the public in a network of knowledge exchange about rangeland health and management in the Nebraska Sandhills. The goal of the project is to better understand what influences the plant community in the Nebraska Sandhills and help guide management efforts to protect this vital part of Nebraska. The Nebraska Sandhills provide valuable grazing land and plentiful ecosys...
Potter-Dix's Coyote Football team hosted the quarter-final round of the D6 playoffs Friday afternoon, and defeated the visiting Parkview Christian Patriots 70-to-34 to advance to the semi-final round of the D6 playoffs. This victory pushes the Coyotes' record to 10-and-0 on the season and marks the first time the Potter-Dix team has advanced to the semi-final round of the playoffs. On an sunshine soaked afternoon with 70 degree weather and a slight breeze, the teams squared off in front of a...
The Potter-Dix Coyotes are the number one ranked team in D6, and face the number 13 ranked Spalding Academy Shamrocks in the semi-final round of the NSAA D6 play offs on November 12 in Spalding. Due to the arcane formulas used by the NSAA, Potter-Dix will have to make the long journey east to Spalding, and if they win, they will face either Wallace or Cody Kilgore in Kearney on November 19 for the State Championship. Spalding Academy features a run-heavy offense, led by seniors Dawson Murphy...
Several members of the Sidney Jiu-Jitsu Academy, under the tutelage of Derek Hill, traveled to Greeley, Co., on October 30 and competed at the Colorado Jiu Jitsu Club 10 Tournament. The event was for Jiu-Jitsu competitors, a martial art that relies on technique, leverage, timing and balance instead of speed and strength. Jiu-Jitsu, especially Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as popularized by the Gracie Family and UFC Competitions, is taught by Derek Hill of the Sidney Jiu-Jitsu Academy at The Foundry in...
While President Biden was criss-crossing Europe, Americans have been watching inflation spiral out of control. The cost of electricity has surged to the highest level in decades, and it’s expected to keep going up this winter. Even worse, headline inflation, which includes energy and grocery prices, is rising at the fastest rate in 30 years. That may not matter much for wealthy coastal elites, but for most American families, it does matter. Every dollar counts, and paying more at the pump for g...
She’s a real lady and for as long as men have gone to the sea, they continue to fall in love with her. For quite a number of men she was their first love. She is built. I mean really built! Her pictures grace a thousand museums and thousands of guys’ fondest memories are filled with the times they’ve spent with her. She can be a real tough cookie when she has to be, and still give a man a safe home and a warm bed. She can be fast, and men love fast women. She can be a lot of things to diffe...
Last time in these pages I began a review of a recent book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City. Its author, Andrea Elliott, focused on a middle school girl named Dasani, who grew up in a series of New York City housing projects, a step away from homelessness. After Elliott published an expose in the New York Times on Dasani’s plight, the girl was awarded a scholarship to attend Milton Hershey’s middle school, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She arrived at the private sch...
On November 11, 1918, Ralph Lindsey wrote from his hospital bed in France “Armistice signed at 11 o’clock. Grand celebration all over France. War is at last over and I am still alive!” Later in life if you asked him about the scars on his chest he would simply respond with a shrug and say, “I zigged when I should have zagged.” Ralph was my Great Grandfather, and now, nearly 103 years after he wrote those words our nation once again finds ourselves celebrating the contributions of our Veterans du...
