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FIRST TECH is more than building robots. FIRST Tech Challenge teams are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge in an alliance format. Participants call it "the hardest fun you'll ever have!" Guided by adult Coaches and Mentors, students develop STEM skills and practice engineering principles (like keeping an engineering notebook), while realizing the value of hard work, innovation, and sharing ideas....
Sidney American Legion Unit #17 is sponsoring this contest for grades 3-12 students in public school or home schooled. The Essay Title for 2018 is “What can I personally do to promote Americanism in my school or community?” Class I (3&4 grade) requires 150-250 words, Class II (5&6 grade) requires 250-300 words, Class III (7&8 grade) requires 350-400 words, Class IV (9&10 grade) requires 450-500 words, Class V(11&12 grade) requires 450-500 words, and Class VI (Students with special needs) word count should correspond with students Grade Lev...
$40,000 In Scholarships To Be Awarded To Four Female High School Students Outdoor retailers Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops, together with The Harry & Reba Huge Foundation, will be awarding $40,000 in scholarships to four female graduates of Nebraska or Missouri Ozarks region high schools this spring. Applications are being accepted now through Wednesday, March 7. The Women in Leadership Scholarships are part of an initiative by Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops leaders to encourage young women to become tomorrow’s leaders. This is the first year the p...
Sidney Regional Medical Center (SRMC) and the members of the SRMC Cardiac Rehab Team, this week celebrated AACVPR National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week, Feb. 11-17. Cardiac Rehabilitation Week, initiated by the AACVPR, coincides with both Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month in an effort to draw greater national attention to heart health. This year’s theme, “Making Positive Changes, One Beat at a Time,” honors the patients, families, and healthcare professionals who are dedicated to cardiac rehabilitation as a vehicle for a healthy lifesty...
Not long ago, a Sidney resident was at work when he began to experience discomfort in his chest. Determined that nothing was wrong, he took some medicine and went home without thinking too much about it. Later that night, he went to Sidney Regional Medical Center and was later transferred to Fort Collins hospital for a heart attack. This was Tom O'Connell's experience. The heart attack was caused by a clot in the vein in front of his heart. While at the hospital in Fort Collins, he had to get a...
M y wife, Andi, and I have 2 sons and 5 grand-children, with Matrix being the oldest at age 15. When he was around 6 or 7, Matrix would sometimes stay over at our house for the night. One Friday morning Matrix and I walked over to our church to get things set up for Sabbath worship. As I was getting things ready, Matrix decided he was going to have a sermon and went up to the pulpit to preach like Grandpa. He paused for a moment, wrote a little, paused, wrote a little, then he began to speak…“I love Grandpa, and I love Grandma.” Then he would...
A half dozen Sidney Middle and Senior High School students received recognition by the Sidney School Board Monday in the Monthly Performance Award Program. The Monthly Performance Award acknowledges student accomplishments for excellence not only in the classroom, but other areas as well. Those criteria include: 1. Superior academic performance, (or), dramatic improvement of classroom work, G.P.A. or attitude toward learning. 2. Exceptional work effort toward a particular class project. 3....
The year was 1911. Transportation was a mixture of horses, buggies and stage coaches and the occasional car. The Civil War and Indian conflicts were recent memory. It was also the year the Johnson family added one more to the family role and the population of Cheyenne County. Ada Johnson recently celebrated her 107th birthday. It started with a round of "Happy Birthday" sung to her as a wake-up call. She had visits from family and friends and several arrangements of flower to recognize her long...
James Joyce was recently inducted into the Nebraska Aviation Hall of Fame. The recognition took place during the annual Nebraska Aviation Symposium held in Kearney Jan. 25. James E. Joyce was raised on a farm outside Atlantic, Iowa and graduated from high school in 1958. Shortly after, he attended Parks College of Aviation in Saint Louis, Mo. He received his Airframe and Powerplant Certificate and returned to Atlantic to begin his aviation career. During the next 10 years, he worked for Walnut G...
One of the "hurry up and wait" stages in life is what to do with your life. Is the best career path initiated with a college degree, a certificate program, a doctoral degree or a mentorship that develops into an unexpected lifelong calling? The answer may be found in experiencing what is required of various careers. That is where Sidney Middle School and Sidney Regional Medical Center come together to explain the many options within a medical facility. SRMC hosted an eighth grade job shadowing...
In her drive toward the possible crown of Mrs. Nebraska, Ylani Cole hasn't let an opportunity to represent or serve go by. As Mrs. Cheyenne County, Cole has made nearly 40 appearances since July, representing the county and its residents in a number of ways. Now, she's willing to give blood to help the county. As she looked for ways to help the area, Cole had put "give blood" on her list of things to do late last year. But when it came time to cross that item off, Cole said she couldn't find a...
I would like to start this article by telling EVERYONE GOD LOVES them, He does not like the way we live sometimes but He does love us. We read John 3:16 and hear about it a lot, “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE”. Romans 10: 9,10 tells us that IF we confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and believe in our heart we will be saved. That is all true, but that’s the beginning of being a CHRISTIAN, ( Follower of Christ/Little Christ) this is not a one time event but a begin...
The Trustees of the Virginia Smith Charitable Trust awarded a total of $191,900.00 to a number of local organizations during 2017. They include: Chappell Child Care Center, Creek Valley Preschool, Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries for Sullivan Hills, Chappell Fire District #1, Chappell Ambulance Service, Creek Valley School Educational Foundation, South Platte Preschool, Solid Rock Bible Church for the Food Pantry, Chappell Senior Center, Chappell Chamber of Commerce, SUCCEED, Inc., City of Chappell, Creek Valley Public Schools, University...
Gail McDowell recently presented a baritone saxophone to the Sidney Junior High School music program. A baritone saxophone was purchased from Aliens & Strangers Music Store in Sidney for the Sidney Middle School music program. The saxophone was purchased by Gail McDowell. Her husband Mike taught music in Sidney since 1996. Prior to that, he taught in Lyman, Nebr. "He pretty much taught everything (in music), Gail McDowell said. Mike McDowell died in January 2017. The saxaphone was purchased in...
Students from Sidney schools participated in the Missoula Children's Theatre production of Treasure Island Saturday, treating a packed house at the Sidney High School Performing Arts Center. The play was sponsored locally by the High Plains Arts Council....
Sidney and its community has been dealt a tough card these past months. With Cabela’s changing hands, many people have been left unemployed and the Sidney community searching. Sidney’s Economic Development Department has not stopped working to strengthen Sidney once again. Melissa Norgard, head of the department, keeps looking for new businesses or corporations to bring to Sidney. Through a target market study in January, the department was able to make even more connections to new companies. Many data, IT, management, and agriculture bus...
Sidney students have spent the week immersed in an area of study hosted by the High Plains Arts Council. It is a tale of pirates and treasure, fun and frolicking. It is an adventure in learning stage acting, following a director and telling a story from the stage. The High Plains Arts Council is presenting the Missoula Children's Theatre. Auditions for students kindergarten through 12th grade were Monday, Jan. 29. The play "Treasure Island" has been the focus of hour of rehearsal this week with...
That is the goal of the new program called Unified Raiders at Sidney High School. The new program is to encourage students in every way possible and to help them become better citizens. It is part of a grant given to the high school for a Positive Action program. The program does not stop at the High School, but the hopes are to apply the programs in all schools. With this program the school hopes to help students find a place in school and to encourage become more involved within the school and...
The sweat on the foreheads told of competitive stress. Each call to the front was a chance to move ahead or take your place in the audience. The prize, the goal of every contestant, was the honor of being the best and the opportunity to compete at the next level. On Thursday, Jan. 25, students from West and Middle Schools, Potter-Dix and Leyton competed for the title of top speller in Cheyenne County. The winner is invited to the Midwest Spelling Bee to be held in Omaha in March. The final...
What better way to hold childrens' attention than with one of their favorite foods? For the past six years, local preschool, Wild About Preschool, has been welcomed into the Sidney Pizza Hut for a field trip and given the special experience of touring the back kitchen. This year, as in years past, general manager, Connie Hilliker, has given the children the tour and once again it proved to be an experience that the children will not soon forget. Upon walking through the doors, the preschool...
At the southwest portion of Legion Park is a sentinel, a marker of sorts, that stands high above the memories of past wars and their veterans. It is indicative of the weather and symbolic of our nation and its history. Proper maintenance of the flag requires time, frequently a volunteer, and awareness of the procedure to raise and lower a flag. Ken Foland has been that man in Sidney for more than 20 years. He started the duty in 1991. "I just kind of fell into it," Foland said Friday. "I was...
In the mid to late 1800s, the western plains were wild and the men and women who tried to tame them were wilder still. Camp Lookout was established as one of many outposts to help ensure the safety of people moving into the west. The Boot Hill Committee is working to restore the Camp Lookout building to historical significance. Since its construction in 1867, the building went from being a military outpost, to a brothel, then into private ownership before it was purchased by the City of Sidney....
SIDNEY – Ginny Herboldsheimer was installed as Honored Queen of Job's Daughters International, Bethel No. 25 on January 7 for the spring 2018 term. Other elected officers installed were Senior Princess, Josie Dowse; Junior Princess, Raina Hartwig; and Guide, Amanda Beier. Appointed officers installed were: Chaplain, Madi Frerichs; First Messenger, Faith Frye; Fourth Messenger, Janessa Carley; and Fifth Messenger, Grace Draper. Job's Daughters International is an organization for young women a...
Spring is still a couple months away, but it’s not too early to talk about gardening, landscapes, turf, trees, shrubs, and other horticulture topics. The 2018 Nebraska Extension Master Gardener training will begin in late January, with weekly training classes running into mid-March for volunteers who want to add to their own knowledge and share what they know with others in their communities. Anybody with an interest in lawns, landscape, or gardening, as well as sharing their knowledge, is invited to be a Master Gardener. In exchange for the r...
The vision is of a destination location, a draw to downtown that will also benefit other businesses. It will be a permanent venue for concerts and public events. It will be located in an historic location with businesses surrounding it and within view of historic buildings to the north and businesses to the south. The intent is to provide a permanent location for events like Downtown Sounds, the Farmer's Market and Christmas Events. Hickory Square started a few years ago when the City of Sidney...
