Allison ShirkFor the Journal-Democrat

Statements from GovernorHeineman in the past weekabout the more than 200

illegal immigrant children set-tling within Nebraska state bor-ders has added a greater narra-tive to the topic of immigrationreform in Nebraska. In a press release from Gov.Heineman’s office, he said he will

“continue to fight” for the namesand information of the childrenand their sponsors.“I can’t ensure that any illegalindividual is not getting federaland state benefits if I don’t knowwho they are and if they are not inour system,” Heineman said. “Iwant to know who is going to payfor the education of these unac-companied alien children that arebeing sent to Nebraska.” Diversity in education and com-

merce is what immigrants providesoutheastern Nebraska.Community leaders in Syracuseand Nebraska City, Nebraska, saidtheir small presence has positive-ly affected commerce and busi-ness. A lack of educational resourcesfor immigrant children has leftcommunity leaders wonderinghow immigration reform couldhelp these children, though. Syracuse, for one, hasn’t seen a

great impact from immigration.Carolyn Gigstad, executive di-rector of the Syracuse Area Cham-ber of Commerce, said Syracusehas seen little to no increase in im-migrants. “I can’t foresee immigration re-form affecting Syracuse unlesswe have bigger industries comingin,” Gigstad said. “Who’s to say wewon’t get those industries in the

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CorrectionIn a July 17 article ti-tled “GSS Syracusemoving to create‘softer, homier’ lookfor residents,” the fol-lowing was misre-ported:� The first and sec-ond phase of remod-eling will not includerepainting of hallways– that will be in theupcoming thirdphase.� The photo used inthe article was an oldphoto, not an up-dated photo of thelobby.

ClarificationRelative to the samearticle, it should benoted that during thethird phase of remod-eling, 12 semi-privaterooms on hallways200 and 400 will beremodeled into pri-vate rooms withlarger bathrooms andsome with showers.This will drop thenumber of beds avail-able by 12. The cen-ter will still havesemi-private rooms.Remodeling began in2011 and the thirdphase is expeted tobe completed in thesummer of 2015.

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A local farmer injured in a trac-tor accident on July 17 is expectedto recover, his wife said last Friday.Allen Hauschild of rural Avocawas airlifted to Creighton MedicalCenter for injuries sustained from"falling off " his tractor," accordingto his wife Paulene Hauschild.The incident occurred about8:30 p.m., she said."He's doing pretty good," shesaid via telephone from the hos-pital. "He doesn't have any brokenbones except some broken ribs. Hegot his face and arms skinned uppretty bad. They're just going towatch him for a few days, and theribs should heal themselves."Fire and Rescue officials who re-sponded to the scene could not bereached for comment at the timeof this report.Despite reports that Hauschildwas crushed by the tractor, Paulene

Localfarmer recoveringfrom accident

Board approves parent handbookLaramie WernerFor the Journal-Democrat

The parent handbook for TitleOne was approved at the JulySchool Board meeting. The “Parents as Partners” bookincludes ways for parents to en-courage reading at home. Title One is a federal programthat supplies funds to schools forboosting reading, and this is a re-quirement of the program.School Board member Tyler

Crownover expressed concernthat the Syracuse K-3 readingprogram does not allow parents towork at home with students on theschool curriculum. Superintendent Brad Bullersaid that the idea is more aboutletting parents know what’s goingon and keeping communicationopen. The current reading programdoes not affect compliance withthe Title One.The second readings on sever-

al previously discussed policieswere reviewed - safe pupil trans-portation, student attendance,and concussions. On the attendance policy, thewording was revised per a re-quest from the county attorney. The school will still notify the at-torney any time a student misses20 days in a 12 month period. However, that report will beafter notification to the parent and

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Councilholds specialmeetingLaramie WernerFor the Journal-Democrat

A special City Council meetingwas held Monday night to discussthe budgets by department. Taking a proactive stance oncity issues by having discussionsahead of time is a key goal of Syra-cuse Mayor Kc Ortiz.The library requested a 3 percentincrease on everything except mag-azines, phone, internet, and in-surance. These specific things have in-creased at a higher rate, so the pro-posed budget reflects that. The li-brary budget is operating as pro-jected and should come in withinbudget by fiscal year end.Ortiz requested that they do ananalysis on the cost to extend li-brary hours. This is a common re-quest from citizens, and it’s some-thing the city is willing to pursueif it makes sense.The cemetery is operating wellunder budget. However, there aresome projects that will likely usethe rest of the budget for the year.

A Special Volunteer

Turner Zahn (age 3), his mother, Rachel Zahn and Turner’s great-grandmother, Elaine Zahn deliv-ered mail to the residents of the Good Samaritan Society-Syracuse.

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The Good Samaritan Soci-ety – Syracuse usuallyhonors our volunteers

every April during NationalVolunteer Week. But a couple of weeks ago wewere blessed to have one of theyoungest volunteers help deliv-er mail to the residents at thenursing facility and that de-serves some recognition.Turner Zahn, 3, his mother,

Rachel Zahn and Turner’s great-grandmother, Elaine Zahn, de-livered mail to the residents ofthe Good Samaritan Society-Syracuse. The residents were thrilled toget their mail from such a hand-some, sweet little boy. Turner had fun delivering themail, but he especially enjoyedriding on the mail cart.Volunteers at Good SamaritanSociety – Syracuse share manyhours of volunteer work. “Our volunteers inspire resi-

dents, their families, staff mem-bers and others through thesimple act of sharing their giftsof time and talent,” says Ad-ministrator Dianna Epp. “Vol-unteers help us fulfill our missionof sharing God’s love in word anddeed.”“Volunteers are so very im-portant to the Good SamaritanSociety,” says Activity Director,Jenny Meyer. “Without them,some of the activities could not

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100 met at the Post Homeon July 1, 2014. Prior to the start of the

meeting, the new officersfor the year were installed.The installing officer wasJenice Bates. Those installed were Lois

Johnson, President; BevWilhelm, Secretary; MaritaKuhlenengel, Treasurer; An-nette Emerson, Historian;Linda Holz, Chaplain; Ser-geant-at-Arms, Barb Mies-bach.Girls’ State delegates,

Sarah Antes and KyleeWerner, were guest speak-ers. They told the members

about their week in Lin-coln for Girls’ State. Dis-

trict 12 President, LindaVarejcka, was another guestspeaker. She spoke aboutattending the DepartmentConvention in Kearney andthe new updates.

Committee reports forthe month

Poppy Chairman, JudyMoritz, has resigned fromthis position. Poppy Distri-bution Day in August hasbeen put on hold. Membership—Claretta

Royal reported that Unit#100 has a new member,Dawn Dettmer. Welcometo Dawn.

New BusinessIt was announced that

U.S. Army Second Lt. Jere-my Dettmer of Syracusewas among 26 cadets in theUniversity of Nebraska-Lin-coln Reserve Officer Train-ing Corps to receive military

commissions in ceremoniesin May at the NebraskaUnion. His mother, Dawn, will

receive a Blue Star Banner,as she is now a Blue StarMother.

AnnouncementsThe next meeting will be

the second Tuesday of themonth, Sept. 9 at 1:30 p.m.at the Post Home. Pleasenote the date change forthe September meeting.September hostess will beClaretta Royal.

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Dale E. Wallen91, of Syracuse

Dale E. Wallen, age 91,of Syracuse formerly ofPalmyra passed away onJuly 15, 2014 in Syracuse,NE. He was born on July

28, 1922 to Claude & Josie(Siepelmeier) Wallen.Dale married Shirley

Underhill on August 15,1954 in Grand Island, NE. Dale worked as a farmer

around Unadilla andPalmyra his whole life. He was a past president

of the Palmyra Co-op,

Lifetime Farm Bureaumember, Lion Club mem-ber and also a member ofthe Palmyra PresbyterianChurch.He is survived by: Chil-

dren: Wayne (Mary)Wallen of Palmyra, Larry(Becky) of Lincoln, Mar-sha (Joe) Sand of Syra-cuse; Grandchildren:Katherine (Simon) Con-nett, Jerry Wallen, MattWallen, William Wallen,Cassandra Wallen, Gar-rett Sand, Lauren Sand;

Great Grandchildren:John Connett, Henry Con-nett; Sister: Betty Obristof Lincoln; Sister-in-law:Vena Pace of Grand Is-land, also numerousnieces, nephews andfriends.He was preceded in

death by: wife: ShirleyWallen, parents: Claude &Josie Wallen, grand-daughter: ChristinaWallen.Funeral Service were

held on Friday July 18 at

10:30 a.m. at the PalmyraPresbyterian Church inPalmyra, NE. Burial atthe Unadilla Cemetery.Visitation was held

Thursday July 17 from 3until 7 p.m. with familygreeting friends from 5-7p.m. at the funeral homein Syracuse.Memorials are suggest-

ed to the family’s choice.Condolences may be

sent to www.fusselmanal-lenharvey.com

Health Dept: Protect yourselffrom West NileStaff Reportsjbrock@ncnewspress.com

With summer in fullswing, the Southeast Dis-trict Health Department isreminding residents to pro-tect themselves from pos-sible West Nile Virus in-fection."People should definite-

ly take precautions againstmosquito bites,” said KayOestmann, Director of theSoutheast District HealthDepartment. “It only takesone bite to infect you.”Less than one out of 100

people bitten by an infect-ed mosquito become seri-ously ill, but everyoneshould be vigilant. West Nile symptoms in-

clude flu-like symptomswith fever, headaches, andmuscle weakness, howevermost of those infected haveno symptoms or only mildflu-like symptoms. The more serious com-

plications from West Nile

encephalitis includeswelling of the brain and as-sociated symptoms such asdisorientation and paraly-sis.To avoid mosquito bites,

the Southeast DistrictHealth Department rec-ommends:

� Applying mosquito re-pellent containing DEET,picaridin or oil of lemon eu-calyptus

� Wearing long-sleevedshirt, pants, and socks

� Avoiding going out atdawn and dusk when mos-quitoes are most active

� Eliminating standingwater to reduce mosquitobreeding sitesThe Southeast District

Health Department is lo-cated at 2511 Schneider Av-enue, Auburn, Nebras-ka 68305. For more information,

call (877) 777-0424 or(402) 274-3993 or visitwww.sedhd.org.

Donald Ray Owens, 59formerly of Arkansas City,Kansas, passed away July20 in Syracuse.He is survived by his

wife Darla Owens; chil-dren: Michael Owens andwife Kris of North Car-olina, Raymond Owensof Dunbar NE, CrystalFossberg and husbandLuke of Lincoln NE,

Stephen Owens and wifeDanelle of Syracuse NE;18 grandchildren and 1great grandchild; sistersBrenda Frye of HotSprings Arkansas andNugget (Faler) Rockwellof Omaha NE; nieces,nephews, cousins, andother relatives.He was preceded in

death by his parents,

grandchild William Don-ald Lee Owens (2002),Daughter Donnell LeeOwens (2012) daughterin law Lora Jean Owens(2013).Funeral services pend-

ing. Contact Gude Mortuary

for further arrangements.

Donald Ray Owens59, formerly of Arkansas City, Kansas

New Baby

Clint and Jennifer(Janata) Werner ofFremont are the

proud parents of adaughter, CayleighAdelle, born at 8:13 a.m.on May 2, 2014 atMethodist Women's Hos-pital in Omaha.

She weighed 9 pounds 2ounces and was 21 incheslong. She joins older brother

Justin (3) and sister Jordyn(1). Grandparents areKevin and Mary Janata ofHowells and Arlyn andJulie Werner of Syracuse. Great Grandparents are

Alyce and the late JoeJanata of Howells, MaryIda and the late Joe Wis-nieski of Dodge and Ken-neth and the late Mildred

Werner of Syracuse andAdeline and the late AlbertWiebusch of NebraskaCity.

Anniversary

Bob and LeslieCameron will cele-brate their 25th

wedding anniversary onJuly 29. Thank you for all your

love and support over theyears and for being suchgreat role models. Here’s to another 25

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We love you,Taylor, Madison, Jayce

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The Syracuse FBLAPartnership withBusiness team of

Emily Harsin, JamesonBennett, and AaronHalvorsen placed tenth atthe National Future Busi-ness Leader Conference atthe Gaylord Opryland Ho-tel in Nashville, Tenn. A report describing their

project with HeadwindConsumer Products wasjudged prior to the confer-ence. Each team then had togive a seven minute pres-entation to judges and 15teams were selected into a fi-nal presentation round. Shelby Burr helped the

team prepare the Partner-ship with Business reportprior to the conference andcompeted in the FutureBusiness Leader event atNLC. Aaron Halvorsen alsocompeted in Business Cal-culations. Samantha Youngwas in the FBLA Principlesand Procedures event andAlyssa Rippe was in Com-puter Applications. State FBLA Treasurer An-

naLee Christensen helpedlead meetings for the Ne-

braska delegates and at-tended various presenta-tions and officer meetings.The members also attendedexhibits, workshops andgeneral sessions. The Syra-cuse Chapter was recog-nized for being a Gold SealChapter and increasing theirmembership by at least sev-en members.Adviser Susan Wellman

was recognized at the open-ing general session as Ne-braska’s Outstanding LocalAdviser. During the Moun-tain Plains Regional meet-ing, she received a plaqueand certificate for the hon-or.The 2014 NLC was the

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2013 report from The As-sociated Press, the top 1percent of U.S. wage earnersin 2012 earned 19.3 per-cent of total household in-come, while the top 10 per-cent earned 48.2 percent.According to the report,

this is the widest wage gapsince 1928.So if my calculations are

correct, 90 percent of Amer-icans earned about 50 per-cent of the nation's income. According to a March

2012 report fromForbes.com, the average an-nual income of the top 1 per-cent was $717,000. The top .01 percent, how-

ever, earn in the neighbor-hood of $27 million on av-erage.That is quite a disparity,

especially when you factor inhow much more has beenearned since then.So let's look at the num-

bers.The U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics reports that aver-age weekly wages for U.S.workers rose a whopping 1.3percent in 2013, accordingto AP.In May 2013, the BLS re-

ported the national aver-age for annual salaries in theU.S. to be $46,440. But CEOs are definitely

cashing in, to the tune ofabout $10 million a year.Another AP report from

May 2014 reported that "thehead of a typical large pub-lic company earned a record$10.5 million [in 2013], anincrease of 8.8 percent from$9.6 million in 2012."Most people shrug it off

and say, "That's the Ameri-can Dream." But whose dream is it,

really? When the cost of every-

thing goes up but wages re-main virtually stagnant,there is a big problem.We live in a consumer-

driven economy, and if com-panies want to remain inbusiness, they must provideemployees with a sustain-able wage. If not, the men, women

and children in Americawill be unable to consumetheir products.It's simple economics.Sending industries over-

seas and cutting jobs to savemoney might pay off short-term, but in the end, it willonly create what we havenow – a nation dependenton government assistance.Sure, the right-wing rhet-

oric about "takers" and "jobcreators" works now, buteventually, that wage gapwill continue to widen. Toassign the term "lazy" and"incompetent" to everyonewho draws government as-sistance is irresponsible andarrogant. We bought into the so-

called War on Terrorism fora while, but when we sawwhat it did to our sons anddaughters in uniform, wewere quickly disillusioned.Now, it's only a matter oftime before our financialfutures go up in smoke. It's difficult for the feder-

al government to pay itsbills when the "job creators"skirt their financial respon-sibilities through tax loop-holes. And it's nothing shortof duplicitous when theyblame on the poor, sick andelderly.Washington has a spend-

ing problem because bigbusiness has a saving prob-lem, and the only peoplethey are saving are them-selves.Ponder that!

Federal diet recom-mendations are atrisk of becoming

the latest battlegroundfor the Administration’screeping environmentalregulatory scheme. Every five years, the

Department of Agricul-ture (USDA) and the De-partment of Health andHuman Services (HHS)come together to revisefederal dietary recom-mendations, which aresupposed to be based onthe latest nutrition sci-ence. Rather than focusing

solely on current nutri-tion and health advancesto inform Americans ofhealthy food regimens,the discussions are skew-ing towards so-called en-vironmentally “sustain-able” practices laid outby the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA),which has seemed to goout of its way to be atodds with conventionalagriculture. In other words, nutri-

tion science and our pro-ducer’s voices may take aback seat to the Admin-istration’s political agen-da.Lost in that discussion

is the focus on the scien-tific nutritional values ofdifferent food options. This marks a signifi-

cant expansion from thehistorical scope, whichCongress intended to“contain nutritional anddietary information andguidelines,” as stated inthe National NutritionMonitoring and RelatedResearch Act of 1990.The joint USDA-HHS

Dietary Guidelines Ad-visory Committee(DGAC), which is re-sponsible for the updatedguidelines, has estab-lished a “Food Safety andSustainability” subcom-

mittee, and while it re-mains unclear just howfar the committee will goto push an environmentalagenda, I questionwhether their recom-mendations will be root-ed in the latest advancesin nutrition and healthscience. In recent meetings,

DGAC has focused dis-cussions on environmen-tally sustainable diets, ar-guing that eating lessmeat will be better forthe planet. Committee members

reportedly said that tran-sitioning from a meat-based diet to a plant-based diet should be en-couraged in all food sec-tors. DGAC also discussedhow marketing newplant-based diet recom-mendations as environ-mentally friendly may at-tract more people toadopt changes in theirdiet. This sort of costly

guideline has no basis innutrition, but it has majorimplications for farmers,ranchers and those whoconsume their products.For years, convention-

al agriculture productshave been deemed per-

fectly healthy by the fed-eral agencies. Changing the focus

based on policy ideas un-related to nutrition sci-ence confuses the mes-sage regarding healthydiets with the Adminis-tration’s environmentalagenda.Improving dietary rec-

ommendations shouldnot be a regulatorypotluck, where every as-pect of the President’sagenda has a seat at thetable. In Nebraska, ag pro-

ducers strive to producesafe and nutritious foodwhile being good stew-ards of the environment. Their livelihoods de-

pend on it. The Administration

should stay within thescope of science-basednutrition advances whendeveloping new diet rec-ommendations, and savethe political battles forother venues. Rest assured, I will con-

tinue to push for objectivedietary guidelines thatpromote healthy eatinghabits from healthysources, like Nebraska’sag producers.

Irecently watched a de-bate about the fastfood workers’ protests

that have been takingplace around the country. Advocates on both sides

are passionate about theirviews but there are somethings about the so called“workers’ strike” that manymay not know. On May 15th some fast

food workers conductedstrikes in over 150 U.S. cities. Their goal was to demand

a raise to $15 per hour andthe right to unionize withoutopposition. Supporters trot-ted out extreme cases suchas Luis Vasquez, a 19 yearold Chipotle worker in NewYork. Vasquez said he earns$9 an hour and is the mainsource of income for hisfamily who collects foodstamps and takes govern-ment assistance to “pay therent.” He told CNN, “What I

am trying to say to compa-nies today is share the prof-it.” Jamie Branch, a Rock-

ford, IL McDonalds workersays, “The reason I’m goingon strike is because I feel likethey are underpaying theirworkers. That corporation is mak-

ing billions of dollars in thesame hour they’re payingme eight measly dollars. It’s

time for me to start gettingacknowledged and treatedas if I matter.” Most of the statements

were similar but is it entirelyaccurate? Many fast food companies

do make a lot of money, butaccording to a McDonalds’spokeswoman, about 80%of their restaurants are in-dependently owned and op-erated by small businessowners, as are most fastfood restaurants. Many of these stores op-

erate on razor thin profitmargins in order to keepprices low. Many would beforced to close or lay offworkers if they had to hikewages very much.The media has extensive-

ly covered these protestsand for the most part they

are telling a tale of a spon-taneous, united, worker-ledrebellion. In reality, very few actual

fast food workers partici-pated in any of this. USA Today reports only

“hundreds” of workers wenton strike out of the roughlyfour million employed inthe industry. It was widelyestimated that less than oneout of every 4,000 fast foodworkers actually went onstrike. If it’s not the workers who

are organizing this then whois? Recently, workers and

union leaders from dozensof countries met for the firstglobal meeting of fast-foodworkers, organized by theInternational Union ofFood, Agricultural, Hotel,Restaurant, Catering, To-bacco and Allied Workers'Associations, a federationcomprised of 396 tradeunions, in 126 countries,representing 12 millionworkers. Also, the Service Em-

ployees International Union(SEIU) hired a communi-cations firm to create a mar-keting campaign to generatemedia activity over thestrikes. Why would the SEIU

spend millions on a mar-keting campaign? Easy, to

get more dues-paying mem-bers. Three strike organizers

in Chicago and two in NewYork have spoken to themedia and said that fromthe outset it became clearthat the SEIU was directingthe movement and the goalof the “strikes” was to “or-ganize low-wage or fast foodworkers.” The SEIU, however, de-

nied that they were incharge of anything. If their effort is successful,

it will allow them to poten-tially negotiate collectivebargaining agreements, gainthousands of new mem-bers, and millions of newdollars.Clearly inflation has not

kept pace with wages andthose at the minimum wageend of the spectrum havebeen hardest hit. The fast food companies

didn’t cause this, however,but they are the target of amassive marketing cam-paign that is apparently be-ing assisted by the serviceunions in a not so discreetattempt to get more mem-bers. The fact that these unions

would exploit these workersand in turn make it look asthough they are saving themfrom being exploited bygreedy corporations is un-

conscionable. Many economists have

gone on record saying that apay hike of this magnitudewould cause immense eco-nomic harm and job losses. Clearly the SEIU is push-

ing for a pay raise so theycan then siphon off some ofthat money for themselves.

If more members is whatthey want then union man-agement should sit downwith these workers andmake their case for organ-izing. Someone wiser than me

once said, “You make morefriends in the open thanhiding behind a tree.”

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AND THEN THERE’S THE TRUTH

JASON COTE

Burger flippers or union puppets?

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EDITORIAL

Pardon our messIf you haven’t already noticed, The Journal-De-

mocrat is undergoing a transition. First and fore-most, this is not your fault. It’s ours. We appreciate your patience while our

new staff gets acquainted with the community, buta few things should be addressed.We work for you – not a select few – but all of

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Last week I told youabout the TableCreek Treaty and the

great celebration that oc-curred afterwards.

In fact, although the In-dians had been pacified forawhile by the treaty, the In-dian troubles were not over.

How the settlers and theIndian tribes managed toco-habit peacefully in Ne-braska depended so muchon the skillful managementof the reservations by theagent appointed to man-age them.

Most agents were politicalappointees. Some camefrom the military but oftenthey simply got the jobthrough their Washingtonconnections.

Few had a formal educa-tion and kept poor records,others were downright cor-rupt.

William Dennison wasappointed as Indian Agentin Nebraska City by Presi-dent Buchanan.

At first he seemed to bedoing a more credible jobthan his predecessor. TheOtoe Chief Arkeketah knewand respected him and theIndians who visited Ne-braska City were peacefuland friendly.

For the first three or fouryears that Dennison worked

with the Indians things wentsmoothly, but in February of1861, about forty Otoe In-dians, headed by their chief,showed up in Nebraska Cityclaiming they had not re-ceived the annuity owedthem and their people werestarving.

It had been a very drysummer and their cropshad failed. They had notgone on their annual sum-mer Buffalo hunt becausethey were tending cropsthey had planted, but thosecrops had failed and nowthey had neither meat norproduce.

Dennison took no actionand the chief confrontedhim at the Hawke andNuckoll’s store at 6th andMain.

The Indian Agent tried tocalm the chief down and

told him he should accom-pany him to a room over thestore where they could talkprivately. Several other In-dians followed the two ofthem up the stairs.

When the Indian agentcould provide no satisfacto-ry explanation of why theyhadn’t received the annuityentitled to them, he tried toleave, but was quickly tiedup and the chief demandedhim to complete the nego-tiations.

The Otoes were becomingincreasingly angry. They puton several demonstrations,which of course, frightenedthe white residents.

Mayor Pardee sent atelegram to SuperintendantRobinson of the Depart-ment of Indian Affairs, ask-ing him to come to Nebras-ka City to help solve theproblem.

When Dennison foundout, he sent anothertelegram telling the Super-intendant that he needn’tcome because he had the sit-uation under control.

Obviously the situationwas not only under controlbut was escalating, so Den-nison then sent a telegramto Fort Leavenworth askingfor Dragoons to come andprotect government prop-erty.

It was then discoveredthat the Indian Agent hadremoved the Indian’s an-nuity money from the bank.

Excitement among thetown’s citizens increasedand a town meeting washeld where a group of citi-zens not only telegraphedSuperintendant Robinsonbut also sent a delegation ofcitizens to Dennison’s homeand demanded that he re-deposit that money.

Robinson sent J. ShawGregory to Nebraska City toinvestigate.

When he arrived, he dis-covered Dennison had lefttown. Shaw then went tothe reservation and discov-ered that the Indians wereindeed starving, as they hadsaid.

He went to the bank butcould not access the funds,so he got permission fromWashington to obtain$1,000 worth of credit forprovisions from a local store.The Indians then receivedtheir provisions and re-turned to the reservation.

Dennison was found to bein Richmond, Virginia. Al-though it was discoveredthat there was over a$7,000 shortage in the In-dian funds, Dennison saidhe would go to Washingtonand explain “when hishealth had improved,” Icould not find evidence ofthis.

Is there anyone stillliving that recalls theearly TV days?

Maybe someone is stillliving that is my age orabout the age of dinosaurs.If there is, they might justremember somewhere inthe dim, dark past a timewhen TV stations did notbroadcast 24 hours a day.

Really, there was a timewhen the “boob tube” wasdark for most of a 24 hourday.

When it got closer to thehour programming wouldbegin, something called a“test pattern” appeared onthe previously dark screen.

That black and whitetest pattern gave everyonewatching hope that indeedthere was life in that silentset and if we just had pa-tience enough we would berewarded with somethingentertaining that wouldappear later on that tele-vision screen.

I hadn’t thought abouttest patterns for a long,long time.

They really weren’tworth giving a lot ofthought to anyway. Just abunch of squiggly lines orbars across the screen in-cluding the number of thechannel.

What started that trendof thought were some ofthe long skirts women of

all ages are wearing this

summer. A lot of them arebold black and white barsstitched into different pat-terns.

Some of them arematched diagonally on theside seams, lending a lot ofshape and interest to theskirt.

Of course, a lot of theskirts shape and interestdepends on the wearer, asyou might well imagine.

One tiny little gal wouldhave fit perfectly on one ofthe old nine inch screenswe used to enjoy watching.Then, there was her officemate!

Her long “test pattern”skirt would definitely havedone justice to a modernday deluxe 52 inch set.

Now – just a cotton-pickin’ minute before youaccuse the pot of callingthe kettle black – I don’town a skirt like that!

Another thing I foundhumorous today. . . whenyou live in a retirement

center, sometimes you re-ally have to dig deep tofind some humor.

At lunch two of mytablemates were discussingtwo residents that hadbeen taken to the hospital.

No – that wasn’t the hu-morous part! It was the re-

mark another tablematemade. He does not partakein any form of discussionconcerning the inmateshere – err, make that “res-idents.”

He said “Did that news-flash come direct from theWGN station?” “What doyou mean by that?” one ofthe ladies asked. He replied“I just thought it could behot off of the Women’sGossip Network.”

The rest of the meal wasenjoyed in relative silence.

This evening we watcheda program about some ofour nation’s wealthiest cit-izens and the decisionsthey were making aboutleaving their billions to acharitable organization in-stead of their children.

I don’t suppose there is alot of hope I could be con-sidered as one of the char-ities, is there?

Warren Buffet is thesame age I am, so I would-n’t dare hope he wouldadopt this poor orphanchild, would I?

Oh, well, TV test pat-terns, Women’s GossipNetwork and dreams ofbeing adopted by a bil-lionaire at my tender agewill keep me busy thinkingof something less thanworthwhile things for theweek.

At least it will keep mefrom worrying about thereal problems going on inour world.

DIGGING UP ROOTS

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SEPTEMBER JOURNEY

PHYLLIS BUELL

Just Noticed...

SHIRLEY GILFERT

Trouble on the Reservation � The Unadilla AreaFund met Tuesday, 7/15, atthe Community Center Li-brary. Those attendingwere Bob Brandt, PeggyLeefers, Larry Larson,Barb Wilhelm, MaureenVogt, and Corinne Zahn.The BBQ items were re-viewed and suggestionsnoted for next year. DanMasters has agreed to dothe BBQ again in 2015.Corinne reported the esti-mates were in for replacingthe roofs on the gym andCommunity Center andthey were approximately$46,000. The membersvoted unanimously to givethe Village $10,000 forthe roof repairs. You canread the entire minutesby going to www.Unadil-laNebraska.com

While there you can alsoread the minutes from thelast Village Board meeting

and the last PlanningCommission meeting.

� Bob Wilhelm wouldlike to remind everyone tostop by the Bingo stand inthe air conditioned FairCenter during the CountyFair.

The proceeds help fundlocal youth programs. It’salways lots of fun!

Friday, 7-24-1914, TheOtoe Union: “William Hal-basch reports 66 bushels ofoats per acre.” “The steelbridge one mile west of townhas been completed...Thebridge men are now puttinga steel bridge across thesame stream near the Dou-glas farm between here andPalmyra.” Four wagons of“gypsies” passing throughtown caused a lot of excite-ment.

OLD AVOCASCHOOLHOUSE

NEWSThe Old Avoca School-

house, in Avoca, Nebraska,is offering a TWIN FID-DLING WORKSHOP, onSaturday, August 2, from10 AM - 12 Noon, in theOld Avoca Schoolhouse.

This workshop, led bychampionship fiddler andauthor, Deborah Green-blatt, is perfect for fiddlerswho want to learn to playduets with other fiddlers.Students of all ages willlearn how to constructtheir own harmony partsby ear, and by writing thenotes down in standardnotation.

Tunes will range in dif-ficulty from easy to inter-mediate. Fiddle tunesfrom many traditions willbe explored, includingIrish, Swedish, Klezmer,Cajun, Scottish, etc. En-rollment is limited to 10fiddlers, and pre-registra-tion is required. To signup, or to ask questions, e-mail debby@greenblat-tandseay.com.

RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE

NEWS The next bloodmobile

in Avoca will be on Mon-day August ll, 2014 from1:00 to 7:00 p.m.

AVOCA LIBRARYNEWS

"Soups, Stews andCasseroles" is now avail-

able in the Avoca Library.America's cooking her-itage is rich with recipesfor soups, stews andcasseroles. Many haveethnic ties to other coun-tries, but others areuniquely American.

This book is a collectionof taste-tempting recipesfrom the personal files offood writers across thecountry. Many of therecipes are regional spe-cialties, and some havebeen passed down throughfamilies for several gener-ations. Most are quic andeasy to prepare and rely oncommonly available in-gredients. All are sure toplease your palae and pro-vide you with new menuideas.

The Avoca Library isopen on Tuesdays from 4PM - 5 PM, and by ap-pointment. For more in-formation,contactdeb-by@greenblattandseay.com, or call 275-3221.

– The Avoca News is afund-raising project for theAvoca Library. Moneysearned through this projectwill be used to stimulate thelove of reading in our com-munity. To submit news, or torequest a correction or ad-dition for birthday and an-niversary announcements,write to PO Box 671, Avoca,NE, 68307, or call Debby at275-3221 (leave a messageon the machine, please), or e-maildebby@greenblattand-seay.com by Thursday night.

Merlin and Con-nie Hartmantraveled to

Denison IA on Wednes-day where they hadlunch with Allan Hulse-bus and then spent timevisiting Ann Hulsebus,Connie’s mother.

Wednesday afternoonTracy and Tim Monsonof Bloomington IL calledat the home of DorothySterns. They broughtlunch which they enjoyedwith Dorothy and Lanceand Joan Sterns of Lin-coln. They spent the af-ternoon visiting beforegoing on to JoLane andDennis Moler’s for sup-per.

They also will visitTim’s parents in Fremontwhile in the area.

On Friday eveningMerlin and Connie Hart-man enjoyed an eveningat the Lofte Theatre. Thecurrent production is“The Wizard of Oz.” Itwas opening night so

there is time for people togo. Enough can’t be saidabout the talent and thecostuming.

Kenny and Ruth Hart-man have returned froma relaxing vacation. Theytravel highway 20 acrossthe state ending up inCurtiss for a few days.They described it as a re-laxing vacation possiblywith the night of thestorm at the Callawayreservoir.

The water was activeand they had parked thetrailer close to the water.

Merlin and ConnieHartman were guests ofLisa Hartman and PattyOdell for a cook out onSunday. Patty’s son, Tyler,joined them for lunch.

They took in the airshow at Offuit Air Baseduring the afternoonfrom a parking lot on38th street. Lawn chairsand a shade tree madeperfect watching condi-tions.

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By Jackie Thomson-Bremer

The Palmyra com-munity honoredtwo gentlemen that

were born and raised inthe area. Wyman Sted-man and Dale Wallenwere prominent figuresin the community.

The Palmyra Presbyte-rian Church sang HappyBirthday to Josie. TheStorybox held a toy horsestable and the messagewas about experience. ‘Dowhat you like to do andyou won’t work a day inyour life.’

The congregation cele-brated communion.

OrganizationsOtoe County Family and

Community EducationThe evening started

with a prayer and deli-cious salads and cookiesserved by the SundownerFCE Club of Unadilla.Present were four guestsand 20 Otoe County FCE

members.The guest speakers were

Leland Osten, GordonHopp, Elva Osten, andShari Timm from theBluebirds Across Nebras-ka (BAN) group.

Gordon has 2,400 Blue-bird boxes with 350 boxesaround the Unadilla area.Leland displayed pictureshe’s taken of the Bluebirdhabits and habitats. Itwas a very interesting pro-gram. BAN sells the box-es for people to place toencourage Bluebirds.

The ladies continuedthe evening with theirbusiness meeting.

The clubs divided upthe days for the OtoeCounty Fair to monitorthe Open Class Exhibi-tion area of the fair.

The ladies have provid-ed this volunteer servicefor several years.The OtoeCounty FCE will volun-teer for the OctoberBloodmobile in Syracuseat Luther Memorial

Lutheran Church. Peggy Leefers read

Glenda Willnerd’s funnystory. The door prize win-ners were Verda Umlandof Palmyra and NormaJean Boettcher of Unadil-la.

The next Otoe CountyFCE meeting will be heldon October 21, and hostedby the Evergreen FCEClub.

Palmyra Country Patchwork

The Palmyra CountryPatchwork will meet onJuly 31 at the PalmyraPresbyterian Church from6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Looking forward to afun evening of sewing,needlework, scrapbook-ing, or whatever your cur-rent crafty project is thatyou will bring.

Palmyra Community Vacation Bible School

The week of July 14found a lot of activity inPalmyra.

The Palmyra Commu-nity Vacation Bible Schoolwas in full swing withEverywhere Fun Fair.

The United MethodistChurch was the hostchurch this year, with sup-port from the PalmyraPresbyterian Church andthe Beautiful SaviorLutheran Church (2015host).

The program includedlearning about Bible sto-ries, making crafts, play-ing games, and learningabout science.

This year a light supperwas served and delicioussnacks.

The missions for theweek was to raise moneyto be split between theWestern Otoe CountyFood Pantry and HeiferInternational.

The youth also broughtsupplies for the foodpantry. It was a blessedweek!!

Thank you for support-ing the missions.

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I don’t suppose there is a lot ofhope I could be considered asone of the charities, is there?

Warren Buffet is the same age Iam, so I wouldn’t dare hope hewould adopt this poor orphan

child, would I?

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Otoe County Sheriff’s Of-fice arrested Jamie Fort-ney, 30, of Odell on oneOtoe County warrant.

On July 21, the OtoeCounty Sheriff’s Office

arrested Kenneth Taylor,45, of Lincoln on an OtoeCounty warrant.

On July 21, the OtoeCounty Sheriff’s Officearrested Larry Cassell, 32,of Lincoln on two OtoeCounty warrants.

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Barn Quilt Trail developmentunder wayThe Southeast NebraskaTourism Council is devel-oping a barn quilt trailthroughout SE Nebraska.They would like to placebarn quilts in Otoe Countyon barns or metal buildingsthat would be visible fromthe road or highway. Costto the owner would be ex-penses for supplies. If in-terested, contact CarolynGigstad, 402-269-3373.

USDA-NRCSfunding available forstorm-damaged cropsThe USDA Natural Re-sources ConservationService recently an-nounced that funding isavailable to producers whoexperienced crop damagedue to severe weather dur-ing the 2014 growing sea-son. Interested applicantshave until Aug. 15, 2014, toapply.

The Storm Damage CoverCrop Initiative will assistproducers with plantingcover crops to re-establishvegetative cover lost due toextreme weather condi-tions such as drought,floods, tornado, hail andhigh winds.For more informationabout the Storm DamageCover Crop Initiative andthe other programs avail-able from NRCS, visit yourlocal USDA Service Centeror www.ne.nrcs.usda.gov.

Volunteersneededfor NebraskaState FairThe Nebraska State FairVolunteer program is seek-ing additional volunteersfor the upcoming fair. Ac-cording to a recent pressrelease, the NebraskaState Fair attracts morethan 325,000 people. Thisyear, the fair will be held inGrand Island beginning Au-gust 22. Volunteers maysign up at GIChamber.comor by calling 308.382.9210.

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Establishing good eating habitscan help kids fight/avoid obesitySarah PurcellSpecial to the Journal-Democrat

It’s normal for some childrento experience a “chubby”stage on occasion while grow-

ing up. However, when weight is too

excessive and children continueto remain overweight as they ma-ture, such issues become a concern.

Childhood obesity has more thandoubled in children and quadru-pled in adolescents in the past 30years. The percentage of children ages

6 to 11 years in the United Stateswho are obese increased from 7percent in 1980 to nearly 18 per-cent in 2012. Similarly, the percentage of youth

ages 12 to 19 years who are obeseincreased from 5 percent to near-ly 21 percent in the same time pe-riod.In 2012, more than one-third of

children and adolescents wereoverweight or obese. Overweight is defined as having

excess body weight for a particular

height from fat, muscle, bone, wa-ter, or a combination of these fac-tors.

Obesity is defined as having ex-cess body fat.

The good news is among 2 to 5year olds the prevalence of obesi-ty decreased significantly from13.9 percent in 2003 to 8.4 percentin 2012.

Parents can encourage their chil-dren to engage in good eatinghabits and a healthy lifestyle in avariety of ways:

� Teach by setting a good exam-ple. Talking about the issue usuallyisn’t enough to get children tochange their behavior.

Children are more likely to makesmart food choices and incorporatefun physical activity into their dai-ly life if they see the adults in theirlife making those decisions.

� Prepare well-balanced mealsand snacks for a set time each day.This will make it more likely forchildren to eat healthy food choic-es throughout the day. Ideas: selectfruits, vegetables, skim or 1% milk,whole grains, and when you needa drink water instead of soda pop.

� Familiarize kids with a variety

of foods at an early age. Many young children are picky

eaters and will need encourage-ment when trying new foods. Re-member children have likes anddislikes similar to adults, and itmay take more than one try for achild to establish a taste for a giv-en food.

� Refrain from using sweets andsalty snacks as a reward for health-ier eating. When food is seen as areward, it is only granted a higherposition on the food chain. Instead incorporate treats into

meals and snacks one or twiceeach week and focus on its rolewith other foods in a balanceddiet.

� Keep meals and snack timespositive. Food is something to en-joy, whether at a family dinner orsocial event. Good habits are established for

the long term with positive en-couragement.

Sarah Purcell is a UNL ExtensionEducator for Otoe County and South-east Nebraska. She can be reached at402-269-2301 or via email at spur-cell2@unl.edu.

SyracuseOngoing� The Syracuse CityCouncil meets the secondWednesday of the monthat City Hall.

� Planning CommissionMeetings are held monthlyon the third Tuesday at 7p.m. at City Hall.

Tuesday, July29� The Otoe County Exten-sion Board will meet Tues-day, July 29 at 8 p.m. atthe Otoe County Exten-sion Office, 180 ChestnutStreet in Syracuse. Theagenda will be postedafter July 22 at the Exten-sion office in Syracuse andCounty Clerk's office inthe Courthouse in Ne-braska City.

Tuesday, Aug. 5The American Red Crosswill hold a blood drive from11:15 a.m.- 5:15 p.m. atLuther Memorial LutheranChurch, 1162 Mohawk inSyracuse. To learn moreand make an appointmentto donate blood, visit red-crossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS.

Saturday, Aug. 19� The Otoe County Fairwillbe held August 9-13 at theOtoe County Fairgroundsin Syracuse.

� 5K/1Mile Run during theOtoe County Fair Friendsof the Library in Syracuse

are planning for their 2ndannual Bookin’ it For theLibrary 5K and DeweyDecimal Dash 1 Mile KidsRun. The run will be held at6:30 pm Saturday, August9, at the Syracuse Libraryand is part of the kick offactivities for the OtoeCounty Fair that runs Au-gust 10-13 in Syracuse. All5K participants will receivea free ticket to the streetdance Saturday night fea-turing the Rumbles andwinners of the children’sage brackets will receivetickets to the midway atthe fair. Proceeds fromthis event will go towardschildren’s programing forthe library. To register goto the Events/Result pageat completetiming.com.You can register online orprint a paper entry to bemailed in. Age bracketawards will be presented.Entry fees are: 5K -$30.00/ 1 Mile - $12.00.To receive an event shirtmust be registered by July27.

Saturday, Sept.13        � VFW Post 5547 MidCounty Post and its partic-ipating sponsors invite youto join the excitement ofour 4th Annual “Patriots’Day Run 2014” on Sept. 13.Three-quarters of thefunds raised from thisevent will benefit the VFWNational Home for Chil-dren, which provides helpfor military families, todate over $5,700 has beendonated. 

Saturday, Sept.6The Syracuse city-wide

garage sales will be helSaturday, September 6.For more information, con-tact Patty Vollertsen, 402-269-2887.

NebraskaCityOngoing� The Nebraska CityMinisterial AssociationFilm Series will show amovie each Saturday ofJuly and August at thesunken parking lot be-tween eighth and sev-enth street on CentralAvenue. Approximatestart time is 9:30 p.m.Movies coming up areas follows:July 26: Lego MovieAug. 2: Big DaddyAug. 9: Pitch PerfectAug. 16: The Blind SideAug. 23: Heaven is forRealAug. 30: Up

� Nebraska City EliteYouth Traveling Baseballwill be having tryoutsfor the 2015 spring sea-son. Youth ages 8-14(age by April 30, 2015)are eligible to tryout.Times will be from 6-8p.m. on Sunday July 20,Monday July 21 and Fri-day July 25. Tryouts willbe held at the NebraskaCity Softball Complex.All returning players arerequired to tryout for2015 season. Ques-tions, please contactCorey Williams at 402-209-2458.

� The Nebraska City CityCouncil meets the firstand third Mondays of themonth at 6 p.m. at CityHall.

� The Nebraska City Plan-ning Commission meetsthe first Wednesday of themonth at 6:30 p.m. at CityHall.

� Farmer’s market is held3:45-6 p.m. each Thursdaythrough September at theMemorial Building parkinglot. Weekly sponsors oftenhold a giveaway.

� The Nebraska City Al-liance meets the secondTuesday of the month at 4p.m. at the Nebraska CityChamber of Commercebuilding, located at 801First Avenue. For more in-formation, call Brian Volk-mer at 402-209-0549.

� The following activitiesare planned at the Morton-James Public Library:• Computer classes areheld Wednesdays, 10-11a.m. Registration required.Call 402-873-5609. • Book Club meets thesecond Thursday of themonth, 4:30 p.m. See li-brary for the reserve read-ing list.

� SENCA Head Start istaking applications for the2014-15 school year. The program, for childrenages 3-5 (born betweenJuly 31, 2009 and July 31,2011), provides education,nutrition, health and dis-ability services, trans-portation and familysupport. To qualify, income guide-lines must be met. Individ-ual attention is also givento children with disabili-ties. For more information,contact Jane, family serv-ice advocate, 402-874-9060. Space is limited.

� “Don’t Tell Mother!” and

“Over the Checkerboard,”will run at the BrownvilleVillage Theatre everyweekend through August10. Tickets for all perform-ances may be obtained bycontacting the TheatreBox Office, open dailyfrom 9-11:30 a.m. andfrom 1-5 p.m. The phonenumber is 402-825-4121.Tickets are also availableonline atwww.BrownvilleVillageTh-eatre.com or by email:bvt1967@windstream.net

Friday, July 25� Rebirth, a Midwest-based Christian youthband, will perform live atCalvary CommunityChurch at 7 p.m. on July25. The evening will in-clude free music, skits andsnacks. The church is lo-cated at 273 S. 63rd Road(on Highway 75 just southof town) in Nebraska City.For more information, call(402) 873-7205.

Thursday, July31� Grimm's Garden Centerwill host "Make Your OwnFairy Garden" classes onJuly 31 and Aug. 5. Susanwill show what to use andhow to put together a fairygarden. Finished fairy gar-dens will be on display andsome miniatures will befor sale. Instructions willbe given on how to use“found objects” in yourgardens. The class on July31 will be held from 6-7:30p.m. and the Aug. 5 classwill be held from 6-7 p.m.Please RSVP to Grimm’sGarden Center either inperson, by phone, or viaemail. Contact at 402-874-9340 or tara@grimss-

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Tuesday, Aug. 5� Ambassador Health willbe the host site of a freeinformative presentationgiven by the Alzheimer'sAssociation on Tuesday,August 5, 2014. NatalieNickel with theAlzheimer's Associationwill be providing an in-formative presentation atAmbassador Health. Thisprogram provides infor-mation on detection,causes and risk factors,stages of the disease,treatment, and muchmore. The presentationwill begin at 6 p.m. at 180014th Avenue, NebraskaCity. Dinner will be pro-vided for attendees.Please RSVP to (402) 873-6650 by Monday, August4.

� Morton Place will hostcomplimentary coffee &donuts for seniors atStoner Drug on Tuesday,August 5 from 8-9 a.m.

Thursday, Aug.7� The Kimmel HardingNelson Center for the Artswill feature a reception forthe exhibition "Works byJody Boyer and RussNordman from 5-7 p.m.,Aug. 7. The exhibition,which began July 7, fea-tures photo artwork. Thecenter is located at 8013rd Corso in NebraskaCity. For more information,call (402) 874-9600.

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A rough inning and aseventh inning rallyended the season for theSyracuse American Le-gion Seniors baseballteam during home actionat the Class B-1 AmericanLegion baseball tourna-ment on Friday and Sat-urday.The Rockets opened

tourney action with agame against Falls City.After three innings of

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mound and was relievedby Bayliss, who worked5.2 innings.Offensive leaders for

Syracuse were Teten,three singles; Bayliss, twosingles; Cameron Clark,double; Stilmock, single;Snyder, single; and JayceCameron, single.Counting the results

from the area tourney,the Rockets end the sea-son with a mark of 9-16.Although the area

tourney didn’t produce

wins, Coach MarkBayliss said the seasonrepresents another stepforward for the Syracuseprogram.Coach Bayliss said he

the players in the pro-gram are making base-ball a priority andworking on their skills inthe offseason.And the Rockets had a

young group this year.Coach Bayliss said all

of the Rocket players areeligible to return andplay next year and addedthat he’s looking forwardto working with themagain.In addition to praising

players for their commit-ment to the program,Coach Bayliss also saidthat his assistant coacheshave been invaluable tothe program.

CorrectionMitch McWilliams

was incorrectly identifiedin last week’s legionbaseball information. Christian Fredrick was

incorrectly identified inthe story.

The Syracuse swim teamcompeted in a meet againstAuburn on July 2.Boys eight-and-under free2. L. Oelke, 26.163. C. Caudill, 30.04. T. Halvorsen, 30.40Boys 9-10 free1. R. Shanks, 16.472. C. Mogensen, 17.53. K. Dowland, 20.034. K. Swanson, 20.475. E. Parde, 21.47Boys 11-12 free2. B. Cavanaugh, 43.223. H. Rumery, 1:10.91Boys 15-18 free1. H. Paden, 25.382. J. Holthus, 27.123. A. Johnson, 27.81

Girls eight-and-under free1. L. Mogensen, 22.932. R. Seelhoff, 24.624. L. Dale, 30.195. H. Kirchhoff, 31.626. K. Dowland, 34.09Girls 9-10 free

2. B. Reichmuth, 16.824. H. Knox, 18.756. Kam. Stanley, 19.37Girls 11-12 free5. C. Carlson, 37.31Girls 13-14 free4. E. Holthus, 33.656. E. Bjork, 37.03Girls 15-18 1. S. Paden, 28.592. S. Zimmer, 29.784. G. Williams, 33.445. A. Rippe, 34.226. C. Carlson, 35.71

Boys eight-and-under back3. B. Schroeder, 39.95. C. Wander, 42.14Boys 9-10 back1. C. Mogensen, 24.353. O. Wander, 26.844. E. Parde, 26.89Boys 11-12 back2. B. Cavanaugh, 53.783. H. Rumery, 1:25.6Boys 15-18 back1. H. Paden, 32.312. A. Johnson, 36.41

Girls eight-and-under back1. L. Mogensen, 25.432. R. Seelhoff, 34.073. L. Dale, 37.224. M. Nannen, 43.785. A. McCoy, 48.896. H. Kirchhoff, 50.88Girls 9-10 back2. H. Knox, 22.63. Kam. Stanley, 22.755. A. Swift, 24.96. J. Garris, 25.0Girls 11-12 back5. S. Shanks, 52.72Girls 13-14 back3. M. Mueller, 43.754. E. Bjork, 46.035. M. Clark, 48.0Girls 15-181. S. Paden, 33.873. M. Yunker, 40.934. G. Williams, 43.655. C. Carlson, 44.756. K. Mahar, 52.0

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VVS is seeking a Food ServiceManager to direct cafeteria opera-tions at the Cargill Plant in Ne-braska City, NE. Monday-Friday,some Saturdays. NO SUNDAYSOR HOLIDAYS. Food servicemanagement required. Bilingual inEnglish/Spanish helpful but not re-quired. Creative cooking or cater-ing experience helpful as well.Must be self-driven, able to lead,attentive to detail and customer fo-cused. Competitive salary/benefitpackage. Apply on-line at vvscan-teen.com, click on careers and fol-low instructions, or e-mail your re-s u m e t orod.vanpelt@vvscanteen.com.

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future though and reallyneed immigrants to help?” A 2012 study from the

Midwest Immigration TaskForce found that immigra-tion to rural areas had a 57percent growth from2000-2010. Mayor Jack Hobbie of

Nebraska City said that di-versity is the word thatcomes to mind when hethinks of what immigrationhas brought to the city. He said Nebraska City

currently has two Hispan-ic restaurants, a Hispanicgrocery store, two Chineserestaurants and a Viet-namese restaurant that justopened. “They bring businesses

to diversify us and com-merce to help keep us go-ing,” Hobbie said. “Theseplaces weren’t things yousaw here 15 to 20 years

ago.” Hobbie said in the past

20 years immigrants havecome mostly to fill jobsavailable at one of the threemajor employers in thearea: Cargill, AmericanMeter or Diversified Foods& Seasonings, Inc. “I picture it a lot like our

forefathers,” he said. “Ourforefathers came and thena brother or sister followedbecause of job opportuni-ties, and they eventuallyestablished themselves inthe community.” Becky Gould, executive

director at Nebraska Ap-pleseed, a Lincoln-basednonprofit that advocatesfor equal opportunities forevery Nebraskan, said im-migrants feel more at homein these rural communities. “The way we look at im-

migration for our state as a

whole is that in some of therural areas we are lookingto attract people to be con-tributors to the commu-nity,” Gould said. “Immi-gration has been positive inthat regards.”Gould said Nebraskans

in these smaller commu-nities have a sense of neigh-borliness who want tobuild a great community. She said that is why

many immigrants are at-tracted to Nebraska – theycan create a communityfor themselves and theirfamilies. She said education is al-

ways a positive and a neg-ative whenever a new pop-ulation arrives in a com-munity, though. Dr. Jeffrey Edwards, su-

perintendent for NebraskaCity Public Schools(NCPS), said if immigra-tion reform could bringanything to the city it couldbe more funding for Eng-lish Language Learners

classes (ELL). Edwards said each stu-

dent brings a set of uniquechallenges. A good example of this is

when a Mandarin familymoved to town and theschool district didn’t haveaccess to a Chinese trans-lator. “The Mandarin student

really threw us for a loop,”Edwards said. The four Nebraska City

schools – Northside Ele-mentary, Hayward Ele-mentary, Nebraska CityMiddle School and Ne-braska City High School –have two full-time teachersand two paraprofessionalswho divide their timeamong the four schools. Edwards said there are

12 current immigrant chil-dren enrolled at NCPS. The public school sys-

tem only gets $7,000 peryear from the federal gov-ernment from a No ChildLeft Behind grant to help

provide ELL classes forthese children. Edwards said many of

the kids come from coun-tries, like Honduras andGuatemala, where childrenare only expected to go toschool until fourth or fifthgrade. “Sixteen or 17-year-olds

who come in could be at away lower grade level be-cause of this educationaldifference,” Edwards said. He said many of them

start taking elective class-es right away, like gym andart class. All of them have to take

English as a Second Lan-guage classes before en-tering a regular classroom,though. A big portion of the ELL

resources comes from astate-aid formula, too. Every year NCPS has to

write an English profi-ciency plan that helps thestate determine how muchmoney to allocate to the

public school system. Edwards said the money

allowance ranges from$80,000 - $100,000,which allows them to hirethe ELL teachers and para-professionals. The unique perspective

and diversity immigrantsbring to classrooms hasgiven an overall positiveimpact to the schools andcommunity. Although, an inability to

provide fully for the immi-grant children has left Ed-wards and other commu-nity leaders entertainingthe idea that immigrationreform could bring moreresources to the schools. “One of the things we

are required to do as apublic school is educateeveryone that comesthrough our doors,” Ed-wards said. “Our job is tocontinue to educate them –immigrant or non-immi-grant, legal or illegal.”

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over him," she said. "Hefell off the tractor, but hewas just lucky the tractordidn't run over him."

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Weeping Water Rescuewere among the agenciesthat responded to the 911call.

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For ambulance services,the budget request wasbroken down by very spe-cific line items. Many ofthem were reduced, andsome increased. The cellphone cost is $1500 a year.This covers transmission ordata from the scene di-rectly to the hospital.Some lifts were purchasedearlier in the year and fi-nanced at 0% interest forthree years. That itemcaused an overall increasein the request.The fire department

budget request was almost$3,000 less than the cur-rent year. There was discussion of

a generator, showers, andrestrooms for disaster re-covery. However, thosewill likely not be includedin this year’s budget. However, the fire de-

partment has recently op-erated under budget. Theplan going forward is to setup a “sinking fund” allow-ing them to carry oversome of those funds to beused at a time in the future.The pool and programs

budget was discussed.However, new directorShayna Asksamit needsmore data in order to ac-curately project the needsof the department. She is working with City

Council to break it downfor next year’s budget.The Streets department

is operating within budget.Though a new project was

added this year paving thealley between Plum andThorne and 5th and 6thStreets, it was offset byless snow-removal this fis-cal year.The new budget includes

a request to buy a newskid-steer, repair some ero-sion areas in town, and anincrease in roadway paint. The City Council briefly

discussed trees hangingover the streets and a prob-lem with trucks makingsome of the turns on thetruck-route. Citizens are responsible

for keeping trees 13 feetabove the street and eightfeet above the sidewalk.Overall, the budget requestwas a $1000 increase.The general, police, and

building budgets were dis-cussed last. The generaland building departmentsare on-track to finish with-in budget this year. Mayor Ortiz noted when

discussing the police budg-et that he wanted citizenand council input on over-all satisfaction with thecontracted police throughOtoe County Sheriff ’s De-partment. The police budget is a

contracted rate, and theonly variance is usually an-imal control. They have a three year

contract for police service,and Mayor Ortiz wants totake a proactive approachto analyzing this in thecoming year. This will make contract

negotiations and decisionsa smoother process in thefuture.

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include whether the ab-sences were excused.Policies on Student Fees,

Bullying, and Local Substi-tutes were reviewed and ap-proved. The school accept-ed a bid from B&B to supply

the school’s fuel for the com-ing year. Bids were solicited from

Cubby’s and B&B, but Cub-by’s did not respond. Thebid from B&B includes $.03off of pump price.The Hearing on the 2014-

2015 Budget and PropertyTax Rates will be at the reg-ularly scheduled meetingon September 15.

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happen. “And the best part of

being a volunteer is that itisn’t a huge time commit-ment.”Delivering mail is a once

a week commitment forabout 1 hour. But thereare so many other thingsthat individuals can do togive GSS residents a bet-ter quality of life. Some of them include:� Hymn Sing Piano

Player (Tuesdays from10:30-11:00)

� Craft Group Leader(once a month on a Tues-day, 1:30-2:30)

�Cooking Class Leader

(no bake recipes–once amonth on a Tuesday, 1:30-2:30)

�Bingo Assistants (helpresidents w/bingo cards,passing out prizes & as-sisting with coffee time)

� Show & Tell Assis-tants (last Tuesday of eachmonth). Or – just bring inan item that you thinkthe residents would enjoyseeing.

� Pretty Nails Assis-tants (every Thursdaystarting at 1:00 p.m.)

� One to One with res-idents (Any time of theday, any day – come visitwith them, read to them,

sing to them, play gameswith them). This activityis something that resi-dents really enjoy.There are many reasons

why people should volun-teer. It gives that persona sense of well-being, self-esteem and self-confi-dence; it helps developyour communication andpeople skills and you meetand make new friends. It also gives a deep sat-

isfaction of making a dif-ference in the life of an-other. Please consider volun-

teering your time and tal-ents with the residents ofthe Good Samaritan So-ciety. It will be a life changing

experience for you and agreat benefit to the resi-

dents. Call 402-269-2251to find out more details onhow you can become avolunteer.The Good Samaritan

Society – Syracuse is partof The Evangelical Luther-an Good Samaritan Soci-ety, a not-for-profit or-ganization that owns andoperates rehabilitationand skilled care centersand senior living commu-nities in 24 states. The Good Samaritan

Society’s mission is toshare God’s love in wordand deed by providingshelter and supportiveservices to older personsand others in need, be-lieving that “In Christ’sLove, Everyone Is Some-one.”

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