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Head Start open house June 16
(Local News ~ 06/09/16)
McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook Head Start plans an open house at 712 West 12 in McCook 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Head Start, a program of Community Action Partnership of Mid Nebraska (Mid), provides comprehensive services to children and families. The objective of the Head Start program is to enhance the cognitive, social and emotional development of income eligible children through the provision of comprehensive health, educational, nutritional, social and other services and to involve parents in their children's learning and to help parents make progress toward their educational, literacy and employment goals.. ...
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Hospital conducting community needs assessment
(Local News ~ 06/09/16)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Community Hospital is conducting a community needs assessment to assist with a planning process in the hospital's service area to determine current status of community health needs and goal setting for future improvement. Opinions are being gathered from targeted groups, as well as the general public, to assist in this process...
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NCORPE shuts down for season
(Local News ~ 06/09/16)
Dickens, Neb. -- The NCORPE augmentation project in Lincoln County has ceased Republican River Compact compliance operations for the spring of 2016, according to a news release from the organization. The pipeline's operation helps prevent an irrigation shutdown on approximately 300,000 acres in the Republican Basin, according to the release...
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Fathers Day Fishing Derby set for June 19
(Local News ~ 06/09/16)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Boys and girls from 2 to 15 will head to Barnett Park with their dads and their fishing poles Sunday, June 19, for the McCook Lions Club annual Fathers Day Fishing Derby. "Dads, daughters and sons from all over the area are welcome to take part," said Mark Hankins, a Lions Club member who is helping club president John Zlomke with preparations for the dad's day derby...
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Bartley's 130th anniversary
(Local News ~ 06/09/16)
Patsy Lee Redfern, a native of the Bartley area, peruses the book she wrote for the 130th anniversary of her hometown and offered for sale during "Bartley Days 2016." She helped with a 100-year anniversary compilation of historical pictures in 1986, and, in "Vol. ...
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Smartphones not only dangerous to driving but your career as well
(Editorial ~ 06/09/16)
Using personal electronics can be illegal and downright dangerous while driving, but they're not much help when it comes to being productive at work, either. A new CareerBuilder study found that 20 percent of employers think they're getting less than five hours of productivity out of their workers every 8 hour days, and they think smart phones are to blame...
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Accepting my age
(Column ~ 06/09/16)
I had mentioned recently that I had another birthday roll around. I wasn't unhappy about it at all and sort of consider myself a "youngish" mom since I still have kids at home and one still in elementary school. But the day of my birthday, when I eagerly retrieved the mail full of birthday cards, I found a single piece of junk mail, squeezed between my cards that sorta let some air out of my birthday bubble. Not a burst, just a slow leak...
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