The first institution of higher learning in Nebraska will hold its 2023 commencement on Saturday, May 6, at 10 a.m. Peru State’s annual event will be held in the Al Wheeler Activity Center on the College’s campus. Nearly 400 master's and undergraduate degrees will be conferred.
The Nebraska Department of Education and the Nebraska International Language Association have awarded 101 Seals of Biliteracy to 98 Nebraska students this semester. Two Palmyra High School students— Andrew Moyer and Oscar Thomas—received Seals of Biliteracy in Spanish this spring.
The Otoe County 4-H Speech and Presentation contest was held at the Kimmel Center in Syracuse on Sunday, April 23. The prepared speech contest provides youth the opportunity to write and prepare a speech on a topic related to their 4-H experience.
Imagine how just over one hundred years ago, nearly one-third of people in the upper Great Lakes and upper Midwest regions walked around with a goiter on their neck. A goiter is a lump on the throat, which could be as big as an orange, a grapefruit, or larger. Actually an enlargement of the thyroid gland, a goiter can come from an overactive thyroid gland, an under-active thyroid gland, or an autoimmune condition, but in the United States before the 1920s, the reason was almost always deficiency of iodine.
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts presents “Canceled Because of War” by Olena Mosiyevych, which will be on display through June 16. A Gallery Talk will be hosted on Thursday, May 18, at 5 p.m.
Well, I have a couple of words of wisdom for you this week. I learned them the hard way.
Peru State Men’s Basketball Coach Roman Gentry provided the program for the Nebraska City Rotary Club luncheon at Valentino’s restaurant on South 11th Street on Wednesday, April 26. Coach Gentry took the reins of the Peru State men’s team for the 2022-23 season and the squad posted a fantastic season in tying for the third most wins in program history, 25, and qualifying for the NAIA National Tournament.
The Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired (NCECBVI) hosted a “Hawaiian Paradise” prom on Thursday, April 20. Guests enjoyed a meal with family and friends, followed by dancing and the coronation of the prom King Austin Roberts from NCECBVI and Council Bluffs Community Schools and Queen Joseline Ramirez from ESU 4. NCECBVI staff and students planned the event, Lourdes Central Catholic and Nebraska City High School students loaned some decorations. Volunteers before and during the event came from Lourdes Central Catholic, Delta Gamma, and Nebraska City Public Schools. Also pictured from the event are the prom court.
Thanks to perseverance, teamwork, and innovation, a 1920s era ELI windmill once again spins in the skies over Nebraska City. The restored and regalvanized mill was the site of an afternoon ribbon cutting on Thursday, April 27, near the Greenhouse at Arbor Day Farm.
The Bickel-Nelson American Legion Post 360 of Cook is pleased to announce that Dahlton Fisher of Tecumseh will join nearly 230 other high school juniors from across Nebraska participating in the American Legion Cornhusker Boys’ State program June 4 to 10 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln downtown campus.