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This weekend a movie called “CAMP” will be coming to Sidney’s Fox Theater. “CAMP” is not just any movie however, it is a movie that conveys the lives of neglected and abused children and raises funds to help them. “A portion of the profits from the movie will help send abused and neglected children in Western Nebraska to the Sidney Royal Family KIDS camp,” said Yvonne Donaldson, the director of Royal Family Kids Western Nebraska branch. Royal Family KIDS is a worldwide organization...
SIDNEY (AP) — Cabela's Inc. says demand for its outdoor gear and sporting goods has been strong at the start of the year, so the company is boosting its first-quarter outlook. Cabela's CEO Tommy Millner says business has been strong so far in 2013 at the company's retail stores and in catalog and online sales. So the Sidney, Neb., company now expects first-quarter earnings to be 10 cents to 15 cents higher than Wall Street expected. The analysts surveyed by FactSet expected Cabela's to report first quarter earnings per share of 46 cents on $...
LINCOLN – Nebraska would become one of only two states in the country that offer tax credits for renewable energy generation under a bill introduced by Sen. Jeremy Nordquist of Omaha. The Legislature’s Revenue Committee heard testimony March 6 on LB 411. The bill would offer a new tax incentive for solar, wind, biomass and landfill gas energy producers just as the federal tax credit on renewable energy production is set to expire at the end of 2013. “Us having something like this in place would make us a magnet for renewable energy devel...
Based upon weather forecasts for a major winter storm event, the City of Sidney has declared a snow emergency effective at 10 p.m., Friday, March 8. The snow emergency shall remain in effect until further notice. During the issuance of a snow emergency no vehicles shall be parked or remain to be parked on any portion of an emergency snow route. The issuance of a snow emergency is to help facilitate the ability of snow removal equipment to clear these routes as quickly as possible. The emergency snow routes are designated by red and blue signs... Full story
MCCOOK — McCook Community College has done its part in preserving a piece of history. The logo of McCook Community College on the gym floor at True Hall, the college’s original gymnasium, has a place of honor in the lobby at the new, state-of-the-art, $10 million MCC Event Center. Darin Morgan, director of physical resources at MCC, said he and his staff spent about 45 days dismantling the gym floor piece by piece to preserve the logo. “It was very tedious, it didn’t want to come up very easy,” he told the McCook Daily Gazette. The floor was...
This past February Sidney resident Ada Johnson turned 102-years-old. Johnson said she holds close memories of riding horses on her family’s ranch and creating a wonderful life with her late husband, Ward. Johnson was born and raised in Cheyenne County on a ranch about 25 miles southwest of Sidney. She had three older sisters and her parents had another daughter and a son several years later. “I loved the horses,” said Johnson with a smile on her face almost as though she could still pictu... Full story
Students at Sidney’s North Elementary enjoy Dr. Seuss Day this week. Activities highlighted things that a reader might find in the books The Lorax and Bartholomew and the Oobleck . Children enjoyed getting their hands gooey while making Oobleck green goo in the lunchroom and then after washing their hands, they went on to play a few Dr. Seuss games on computers in the lab. In other rooms, children made colorful masks and mustaches, while other children drew their versions of the truffula tuft tr...
Falling is the second leading cause of accidental death for seniors in the U.S. and injuries from falling are the leading cause of seniors’ visits to the emergency room, according to the National Institutes of Health. “Seniors who exercise and practice balance activities can avert the devastating effects of a fall. Therefore, one of the most important elements of a senior fitness program is balance training,” according to results from a New England Journal of Medicine study. Researchers also...
The simple answer to the question, Why is eating healthy SO hard?, is… IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE! So many of us tend to think that if we want to eat healthy that it will be too expensive, take too long to make the meals, has to be food you have never heard of, or food that is not readily available to you. These thoughts can be true if you make them true, but all you have to do is change your way of thinking and develop a meal plan that will work for you! Some say, “I don’t like healthy foods and I can’t find them.” Why try to make a menu or pla...
Farmers received no relief from a new Farm Bill in 2012, but one senator from Nebraska has introduced a bipartisan regulatory relief for Nebraska farmers that could save producers up to $3.4 billion. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) announced that she has introduced the Farmer’s Undertake Environmental Land Steward (FUELS Act) that would modify the rules set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The current Oil Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule applies to any facility that has a fuel storage capacity of more than 1...
March is not just a month for watching college basketball and hunting for four leaf clovers. Nationwide it is also recognized as National Nutrition Month. One disease that seems to be affecting people worldwide and more intensely the U.S. population is obesity. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention representatives, more than one-third of the U.S. adult population is considered to be obese and obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents over the past 30 y...
Looking for a workout where you set your own pace and bike indoors? Spinning classes are offered at the Cheyenne County Community Center every day of the week except on Friday and during the weekend and the classes are a great way to improve cardiovascular health, stamina and leg strength, said instructor Kiersten Richards, activities director at the center. There is a class to fit almost anyone’s schedule with classes at 5:45 a.m. Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 1... Full story
KEARNEY (AP) — The Great Platte River Road Archway has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection so its finances can be reorganized. Wednesday’s filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Omaha said the tourist attraction owes more than $20 million to bondholders and other debtors. The filing will let the archway remain open and pay 10 staff members while the financial problems are addressed. “We had a conversation with the bond managers about two months ago and told them we were at the end of the line,” said Joel Johnson, who leads the archway founda...
OMAHA (AP) — Nebraska’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in January, matching the 3.8 percent unemployment seen in December, the state Labor Department reported Thursday. The rate was less than half a percentage point lower than the 4.1 percent in January 2012 and was less than half the national rate of 7.9 percent in January, the department said. In December, Nebraska’s unemployment rate was the second-lowest in the country, trailing only North Dakota. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics had not released its compilation of states’ January...
A.J. Cloud knows it isn’t cheap to keep the Sidney Coyotes’ UNIFYed Special Olympics basketball players up and going. So last week, the Coyotes hit the streets to raise money. The only difference was bit more persistence on Cloud’s part. When the fundraising smoke had cleared, the local Coyotes, clients of the Sidney Office of Human Development, had enough to make do for the remainder of the winter — with Cloud leading the way. The team raised about $2,400, with about $2,000 being collect...
The City of Sidney will join the nation this year in competing in the Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge this April, according to a press release this Tuesday from Cheryl Jones, Director of Keep Sidney Beautiful. Jones said that the challenge entails recycling the most aluminum beverage cans and the top cities in the nation are rewarded for their efforts. The event will take place April 1 through April 30 and the winners will be announced in June of this year. To participate in the citywide campaign, drop off any aluminum cans at the U.S....
City of Sidney Mayor Wendall Gaston asked the city swimming pool committee to come together to discuss the results and options presented by the swimming pool consultant team of Doug Whiteaker from Water Technology, Inc., Jeff King with Ballard*King and Associates and Chuck Musgrave, an architect with Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture (a partner with Water Technology, Inc.) this past February. “We’ve been at this for probably a year and a half trying to come up with a general idea of what we migh...
There’s nothing like coming to the realitization that you have had someone con you. It’s even worse when you realize that it could have been potentially much worse. When a person representing Verizon Phones called Fritz Guenther’s cell he never for a moment considered he would be duped and cheated. The call came from 800-569-8440 and a representative claiming to work for Verizon asked if he would be willing to answer a three question customer relations survey. Guenther admits he was deep into... Full story
Panelists at a gun violence discussion at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln agreed that a lack of access to mental health care and family dysfunction are the roots of American gun crime. Point Blank: A Conversation About Gun Violence in America featured seven experts in law enforcement, psychology, constitutional law and policy to address issues involved in gun violence Tuesday, March 5. Discussion moderator and UNL Law School Dean Susan Poser began the evening by citing United States gun violence statistics. According to the Centers for...
NEW YORK — What record? There were no signs of a celebration on Wall Street after the Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high Tuesday. Like on any other day, traders rushed out the doors of the New York Stock Exchange after the closing bell and down the stairs of subway stations. Nearby office workers did the same. Maybe the memories of the financial meltdown are too fresh, or outlook for the economy is too uncertain. But the only indication that something historic had transpired was the six television news cameras that faced th...
Darrell Dykman, a Lodgepole farmer and owner and operator of his beekeeping business Queens Choice Honey, will be giving a presentation this Saturday, March 9 at the Sidney Public Library. He will be presenting on one of his biggest pastimes, beekeeping. The program is part of the library’s ongoing yearly educational series. The informational session will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and will include information on the bees, as well as the tools used in keeping the bees, said Dykman. “I have a PowerPoint geared toward basic beekeeping and I...
A car accident occurred on 10th Ave. and Illinois St. in Sidney yesterday at around 5 p.m. According to a Sidney Police Department report, one driver was traveling southbound on 10th Ave. and entered the intersection at Illinois with a green light. The other driver was driving westbound on Illinois and said that the sun’s glare prevented them from seeing that the stoplight had turned red, and ran his vehicle into the other. Both vehicles were severely damaged and towed from the scene, a... Full story
Cindy Rohm celebrated her and her husband’s new ownership of the Coffee Cure in Sidney Regional Medical Center Tuesday morning by a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, as well as hospital staff. “Sidney Regional Medical Center appreciates the efforts of the Coffee Corner Team for providing the ‘Coffee Corner Cure.’ We believe this is a very important addition for our guests, staff and those in our community,” said Jason Petik, CEO of Sidney Re... Full story
