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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22: Beef and noodles, sweet potatoes, carrot raisin salad, stewed tomatoes, strawberries, dinner roll, margarine. THURSDAY, MAY 23: Oven baked chicken, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dinner roll, margarine, apricots.

St Michael’s Knights of Columbus Council #1739 awarded scholarships recently to Isaiah Miller, l., and Jamie Zweiner, r. They are shown with Fr. Mark Tomasiewicz, priest at St. Michael’s, who will be leaving soon for a new assignment in Omaha.

Area 4-H members working on their 2024 livestock projects will be featured at the “A-Rama” shows on the weekend of May 24-26 in the Niewohner Arena on the Boone County Fairgrounds. The Swine-A-Rama will be held Friday, May 24.

Farmers planning to use chemigation (fertigation) to apply fertilizer or other chemicals to crops have a deadline of June 1, 2024, for permit renewal from the Lower Loup Natural Resources District. Completed chemigation permit applications must be received by the LLNRD on or before that date.

Loup Power District officials recently delivered lease payments totaling more than $1.6 million to area communities. The payments compensate the towns for the use of those systems for the first quarter of 2024.

A new report shows food insecurity in Nebraska increased in 2022 over the year before. Feeding America’s latest “Map the Meal Gap” survey showed the number of Nebraskans who experienced food insecurity rose from 10% to almost 14%.

Area residents turned out in force to assist tornado victims at the annual Burger Bash last Friday, May 17, at Albion ThriftyWay. Manning the Boone-Nance Cattlemen’s grill for part of the event were Brian Honholdt and Chris Kohtz. Some 600 hamburgers served, and the free will donations totaled $2,711. All funds will assist tornado victims through United Way of the Midlands.

American Red Cross has scheduled blood drives in several area towns during May and June. Late May signals the beginning of a busy time for celebrations and summer holidays.

Many area residents were on hand for the 20th anniversary celebration at the Applied Connective Technologies headquarters in Albion last Saturday evening, May 18. The crowd also included many employees and their families from varaious locaitons in Nebraska.

Ord-area residents, and visitors to the Valley County community, routinely seek out the Lower Loup NRD Arboretum for its calming trail winding through abundant plantings of more than 60 species of trees and shrubs.