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VETERANS DAY ON TAP A number of programs are on tap to celebrate Veterans Day this year to honor those who served in the U.S. Armed forces. On Friday, Sidney Regional Medical Center and Sidney Public Schools join for a program featuring Col. Lloyd Buzzell, Vice Commander of the Twentieth Air Force Global Strike Command at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo. The program begins at 2 p.m. in the Sidney Middle School Auditorium. ****** On Veterans Day, November 11, the Sidney Elks Club...
Shop With a Cop is now taking donations. "It's a program where the cops get together and we help children with families who might be having a hard time getting some Christmas gifts together," SPD Officer Jennifer Woodis said. "Maybe they lost a job or there's a sickness." The program, through Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 43, is completely donation-based. "Last year we had five kids and we had $500. Each kid got $100 and they got a wishlist for their family," Woodis said. "They go out and purc...
Sidney Regional Medical Center is hosting a Veterans Day Program at Sidney Middle School on Nov. 10. The yearly event honors the community's veterans, Randi Norton, with SRMC marketing department, said. "It's an opportunity for all the veterans in the community, as well as other community members, to pay tribute to the sacrifice and service our veterans made," Norton said. Col. Lloyd Buzzell, Air Force Global Strike Command vice commander at Francis E. Warren AFB, will be the event's keynote...
Mrs. Cheyenne County Ylani Cole, left, Jeremy Lee and Mike Schmidt, both with Black Hills Energy, take a break from serving meals at a fundraiser held Saturday at Cheyenne County Fairgrounds to provide hot meals and pay off lunch debt for Cheyenne County students. Between the meals and raffles, the project raised $5,000....
Sidney Public Library's MakerSpace will be unveiled Dec. 5 with a Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce "Business After Hours" event. "We'll have drinks and h'ors d'oeuvres," Andrew Sherman, library director, said. "We'll have the MakerSpace open, all the equipment up and running, producing different stuff so everybody can wonder through the space and see everything in operation." The MakerSpace is being funded by a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and will establish a...
St. Patrick's Catholic Church holds its annual Autumn Festival this Sunday. "We used to call it the bazaar, and it's happened in this parish for lots and lots of years," Pat Mertz, pastoral minister, said. "It's our big fundraiser for the year." The key feature of the event is a turkey dinner, served with all the trimmings. "It's really good, and people come from all over for that dinner," Mertz said. "One of the things we do is deliver meals to people who are homebound, so if they call and...
The public is invited to attend the presentation, “Overland Trails: The Children on the Trail” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Cheyenne County Visitors Center, 658 Glover Rd in Sidney. The event is sponsored by Cheyenne County Family Community Education and Humanities of Nebraska. With more than 352,000 emigrants traveling the Oregon, Mormon or California Trails, one in five were under the age of 16. Many of those youths kept journals. This program discusses how these children traveled and relates some of the stories from their journals. Pre...
More than 30 trunks are participating in the city’s Halloween Trunk or Treat, making it the most the event has ever featured. “It’s pretty exciting,” Kim Phillips, event committee member, said. “That means we’re getting people involved and I think that’s pretty necessary right now.” Trunk or Treat, a community event sponsored by the City of Sidney, provides an area downtown for kids to safely trick or treat, Phillips said. In its first year, the event attracted more than 2,000, and last year bro...
Sidney High School's sextet singing group has been selected to sing the national anthem at the 2017 Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) football championship finals Nov. 21 at University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. "They were selected from a group of over 200 candidates and they'll be performing live," Jennifer Mead, SHS choir director, said. The group of six SHS students was chosen for the sextet from a larger group called Heartbreakers, a show choir, and Sidney...
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Sidney's Cool Kids Club program celebrated its 16th year with Lights Out After School Thursday at North Elementary. "Lights on After School is a celebration once a year," Kim Hofrock, CKC director, said. "Beyond School Bells, Nebraska Children & Family, sponsors it through a grant, to celebrate after school programs." With dinner, parents watched their children demonstrate STEM skills such as basic programming and made crafts together. Cool Kids Club is an after school program that provides...
With its annual candy buyback event, LifeSmiles of Sidney is both creating and saving smiles. The event, in its ninth year, buys back candy by the pound from children after Halloween "We invite children to bring their candy after Halloween to trade it to us for money and prizes," Leasa Dornbier, owner/dentist, said. "We'll give them $1 per pound up to five pounds of candy for kids ages 2 to 12, and then they are entered into a drawing for different prizes." Dornbier was inspired to bring the...
The Veterans and Military Family Emergency Relief Organization will be hosting its 9th Annual Warrior Run November 4th at the Legacy of the Plains Museum located in Gering. Registration will be held from 9:00 to 9:45 a.m.. The 10K will start at 10:00 am, and the 5K shortly after at 10:10. Entry fee is $30 for adults 16 and over, $15 for children 9 to 15, and 8 and under are free. Early registration deadline is October 28, 2017, which guarantees participants with a shirt. Registrations after the 28th, entry fee for adults will be $40. Children...
Jeremy Lee, a Black Hills Energy employee, has started a non-profit to provide Cheyenne County children with funds to afford hot lunches and also to pay off outstanding lunch debt. A fundraiser dinner is planned for Oct. 28 at the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds 4-H Building. Lee was inspired to act by his wife, a food services staff member Leyton Public Schools. “My wife came to me and asked if there’s anything I can do at work as far as raising money,” he said. “Not only am I a Black Hills E...
The sound of traditional Opryland Jason country music will be stopping in Sidney on Monday, Oct. 23. "Hank and my Honky Tonk Heroes" will be performing at Sidney High School as part of the Nebraska Educational Outreach Program. Hank and my Honky Tonk Heroes is a rendition of country music from the era of Hank Williams and performers who influenced him and who he influenced. Jason Petty, originally of Manchester, Tenn., grew up around country music. In his biography, he says the first song he...
Sidney High School students try to out-cheer each other at the bonfire held Wednesday. Sidney plays Gering at its Homecoming game Friday night at 7 p.m., with the coronation of the Homecoming Kind and Queen immediately following the game....
Cindi Egging's Art 4 All Ages has moved from downtown Jackson Street to her Linden Street home. Egging refurbished a space to serve as both her personal studio and to teach art classes to students of all ages. This is not the first time Egging has moved her studio since starting three years ago. "I'm like the gypsy art teacher," she said. "I've had art students following me all the way from when I was by the Coffee Corner to now." Egging was first invited to teach art classes for children by...
Sidney's third annual Out of the Darkness suicide prevention walk in Legion Park Saturday attracted nearly 25 participants. "We're here again to raise awareness and provide those peer supports, let people out there know they're not alone, whatever way suicide has affected them," Kaitlin Wilson, co-organizer, said. The event was one of thousands held nationally, Andy Flander, co-organizer said. "There's probably over 3,000 sites nationwide," he said. "Here, in Sidney, is the last walk in the...
Sidney High School's Weymouth Field track is set to be resurfaced in 2018. "We've lost a little crumb rubber," Mike Brockhaus, SHS activities director, said, "so we're looking at options of putting on a structural spray, or a thin layer of new rubber and a structural spray over the top, to help maintain the track." The track was last resurfaced seven years ago, Brockhaus said. "We put a new base mat down, new rubber, and now it's seven years later and we're trying to keep the maintenance up on...
Heavy fog, cleared only by windy conditions grounded the fly-in part of the Voc-Air Flying Club Fly-In Breakfast, but supporters still made their way to the Sidney airport to show support for the club and program. The breakfast, sponsored by Western Nebraska Community College's Voc-Air students and their flying club, is a long-standing fall tradition where the community and school get together to support students in the Voc-Air program. Although there wasn't much flying - aside from hand-held...
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Through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension 4-H Clover Kids program, children ages 5 to 8 learn about science, citizenship and healthy lifestyles. “We’re preparing them to go on to 4-H. This is the beginning step,” Lynn McKinney, UNL Extension office manager, said. “It’s usually the little brothers and sisters who are in it.” Clover Kids meets once monthly, each meeting focusing on a different area through lessons and hands-on activities. “This year we’re touching on the different a...
A youth-friendly alternative to Sidney's Oktoberfest activities, ROCKtoberfest, hosted by Kids Plus, Inc., kicks off tonight. "It is a pro-social event for kids to participate in," Cassie Challburg, Kids Plus director, said. "It has inflatables, free popcorn and candy, a huge Dozers Gaming trailer. Kids can be kids, away from the alcohol and while parents have fun, kids can have fun too." The two-night event for youths in grades 7 through 12 continues through Saturday, from 7 to 11 p.m. Last...
