THOMAS COUNTY, THEDFORD, NEBRASKA 69166 (USPS 596-550) THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018 NO. 39

THOMAS COUNTY Your Source OfNews In The Sandhills

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ACE Camp To Be Held June 10The Upper Loup Nat-

ural Resources Districtis gearing up for an-other year of ACECamp (AdventureCamp about the Envi-ronment)!

If you have an ex-plorer who has com-pleted their sixth,seventh or eighthgrade year of schoolthen make sure youregister them for thisfun experience!

Campers will get toexperience naturethrough outdoor class-rooms and exciting ac-tivities such as tubing,zip lines, and a highwire course. They willbe able to encounterhands-on workshopswith experts regardingsubjects such as water,soil, wildlife, forestry,range, weather, andoutdoor survival!

The camp this yearbegins at 4:00 p.m. CT,Sunday June 10 andconcludes at 2:30 p.m.CT, Wednesday, June 13, 2018.

Registration deadline is Friday, May 25, 2018 and the camp fee is $215.00.The Upper Loup NRD offers five full scholarships for the camp. Registration and scholarship informa-

tion can be found on their website www.upperloupnrd.org or you can also receive the material by callingthe office at 308-645-2250.

You may also check out previous ACE Camps by visiting them on Facebook: Adventure Camp about theEnvironment (ACE Camp).

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Former participant of the ACE Camp take a break during an event filled dayat the 2017 Camp. Check out previous years of the ACE Camps by visiting themon Facebook: Adventure Camp about the Environment (ACE Camp).

Smith Announces Mobile OfficeHours In Thedford & Brewster

Constituents of ThirdDistrict CongressmanAdrian Smith (R-NE) areinvited to meet with a rep-resentative of his office atmobile offices through utthe month of April.

At mobile offices, ThirdDistrict residents canmeet directly with one ofSmith’s staff membersabout federal issues andtake advantage of theservices available throughthe office.

Smith, who has officesin Grand Island andScottsbluff, will providehis mobile office and astaff member at the fol-

lowing times and loca-tions:

Tuesday, April 17 - Thed-ford Life Center, 507 Wal-nut Street, 11:00 a.m. to12:00 p.m. (CDT).

Wednesday, April 25 -Blaine County Court-house, 145 Lincoln Av-enue, Brewster, 12:00 to1:00 p.m. (CDT).

Other locations of hismobile offices are:

Monday, April 16 -Cheyenne County Cham-ber of Commerce, 740 Illi-nois Street, Sidney, 11:00a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (MDT).

Tuesday, April 17 -

Saline County Court-house, 215 S. Court Street,Wilber, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.(CDT).

Wednesday, Aril 18 -Goodall City Library, 203West A Street, Ogallala,11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.(MDT).

Tuesday, April 24 -Dawes County Court-house, 451 Main Street,Chadron, 10:30 to 11:30a.m. (MDT).

For addition a informa-tion, please contactSmith’s Grand Island of-fice at (308)384-3900 orhis Scottsbluff office at(308)633-6333

Thedford Youth Place AtNorth Platte Art Show

Thedford Art students competing at the North Platte High School Art show were,l-r: Kirsten Milam, Tucker Ballenger, Hannah Pearson and Savannah Thomas.

The Art and Gift Gallery,on North Dewey Street inNorth Platte, hosted anannual high school artshow Saturday, March 24through Thursday, March29.

Each year the NorthPlatte High School ArtClub sponsors the show,which features artworkcreated by area highschool students.

The schools that wereentered left their works atthe show to be judged,and viewed by the public.

Thedford students hadfourteen pieces entered

and the results from theshow are:

Tucker Ballenger, firstwith his print entitled“Bird”.

Hannah Pearson wonfirst in the 3-D categorywith her work entitled“Classy Hereford Bull”.

Kirsten Milam placedsecond in the mixedmedia category with her“Woven Tiger”.

Kirsten sold her tigerand Savannah Thomasalso sold her piece enti-tled, “Girl In The News”.

The next art show thatthe Thedford students

will participate in will beon Thursday, April 5 atthe annual Mullen ArtShow held at the Lariat.

SuperheroesOf The

SandhillsEvent April 28

Everyone has been af-fected in some way or an-other by cancer. TheSandhills area has beenhit hard by the effects ofcancer in the past fewyears. To honor thesestrong willed, amazingpeople, Thedford High'sstudent organizations areplanning their annualfundraising event, Super-heroes of the Sandhills.

The Annual Superheroesof the Sandhills will beheld Saturday, April 28, inThedford.

The day gets underwaywith the registration forthe 5K Color Walk/Runwith the event to start at9:00 a.m. at ThedfordHigh School

The Silent Auction, alsoat Thedford High School,will be held from 9:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m. withmany items to bid on.

The pancake, sausagebreakfast will run from8:00 to 10:00 a.m., atThedford High Schooland the pre-orderedfrozen Runzas will arriveat 10:00 a.m.

Fresh Runzas will beavailable to buy begin-ning at 10:30 a.m.

The 3x3 basketball tour-nament registration willbegin at 10:30 a.m. withthe games getting under-way at 11:30 a.m. in theThedford High Schoolnew gym.

All proceeds raised willgo to the Sandhills CancerFund.

The Sandhills CancerFund was founded to pro-vide support, financiallyand morally, to cancer pa-tients and their familieswho reside in the beauti-ful remote Sandhills area.Their intent is to assistwith expenses, and sup-port and information tohelp the patient deal withcancer diagnoses andtreatment. With thisbeing a remote location,cancer treatment oftentimes requires travel awayfrom home and occasion-ally staying away fromhome for treatments, thusincurring more out-of-pocket expenses. Unfortu-nately, the distance andexpense sometimes dic-tates the type of treat-ment the patient mayhave to select.

The members of theSandhills Cancer Fundcare about their fellowresidents and desire tooffer services to the can-cer patients and theirfamily which will helpmake these decisions eas-ier.

Join the Thedford stu-dents at the fourth annualSuperheroes of the Sand-hills Cancer Fundraiser tohelp your neighbors,friends and family.

NebraskaEnvironmental Trust

Announces 2018 GrantsAt a meeting in Lincoln

on April 5, 2018 the Boardof the Nebraska Environ-mental Trust announcedthat 105 projects will re-ceive $18,301,819 in lot-tery proceeds for naturalresource work in Ne-braska. Out of these, 66are newly funded grantsand 39 are carry-overprojects. This is the 25thyear of grants from theTrust, which has pro-vided over $289 milliondollars in lottery revenueto preserve and protectthe air, water and land ofour state. Some of theprojects receiving fund-ing include:

Nebraska CommunityFoundation – Loup RiverPrescribed Fire TrainingExchange

City of Lincoln – Star-Tran CNG Bus FuelingStation

Nebraska Cattlemen –Wildlife Habitat Improve-ment Through PrescribedGrazing: A Private/PublicPartnership

Nebraska Trout Unlim-ited Chapter 710 – DrySpotted Tail Creek andWetland Project

A complete listing of allapproved 2018 grants andsummaries can be foundon the Nebraska Environ-mental Trust web site atw w w.environmental -trust.org.

The Nebraska Legisla-ture created the NebraskaEnvironmental Trust in1992. Using the revenuefrom the Nebraska Lot-tery, the Trust has pro-vided grants to over 2,100projects across the state.Anyone can apply – citi-zens, conservation organ-izations, communities,businesses and individu-als that want to protectNebraska’s natural habi-tat, improve water qualityand quantity or find waysto manage our waste. TheNebraska EnvironmentalTrust works to preserve,protect and restore ournatural resources for fu-ture generations.

In an effort to enhancepublic safety for listenersliving in “tornado alley,”NET – Nebraska’s PBS &NPR Stations, is takingpart in a project to im-prove and expand localemergency-messaging ca-pabilities on mobile de-vices and other digitalplatforms. The goal is tohelp stations generate lo-cally-produced tornadotest alerts and to synchro-nize these alerts withtheir audio broadcasts –all in an effort to protectlives in an emergency.

The 27 participating sta-tions, which are located intornado prone areasacross 10 states, will beoutfitted with the PublicRadio Satellite System(PRSS) MetaPub deliveryservice. Developed byNPR Distribution, Meta-Pub allows local stationsto issue text and graphicalerts synchronized withover-the-air broadcastmessages that can beheard and seen on mobile

NET ExpandsEmergency Alerts

on Mobile andDigital Platforms

The Thomas County His-torical Society will holdtheir first meeting for2018 - Monday, April 16 at7:00 p.m. at the museumin Thedford. We encour-age attendance from anywho are interested in pre-serving the history of thearea or are willing to helpwith the museum dis-plays.

The walls of the upstairsrooms of the Paxtonhouse were refinishedthis winter by Galen andWade Neben and paintedby Jay Jones. The roomsare ready for displays re-lating to education andthe history of the red andwhite former school Tro-jans. Many trophies andplaques have been passedon to the museum datingfrom the 1930’s throughthe 1990’s.

We have some of the redand white sports andband uniforms to be in-cluded in the displays butcould use a cheerleadinguniform, pom poms andmegaphone if anyone hasthose items to donate.

Members continue to re-search the old newspa-pers and provideinformation to those re-searching their families.

The museum will haveopen hours Monday,Wednesday and Friday be-ginning Memorial Dayand through Labor Day.We also open anytime onrequest. Just call anymember or Helen Whiteat 308-645-2489.

Historical Societyto meet April 16