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MPCC RAFFLE CAR IS A 1965 CHEVROLET IMPALA The 2017 Mid-Plains Community College raffle car is a 1965 Chevrolet Impala. The car was unveiled Monday at North Platte Buick GMC. The Impala will remain on display at the dealership until noon on Thursday, giving the public an opportunity to view it and buy raffle tickets. The Im-pala is the 13th vehicle restored and modified by students in MPCC’s Clas-sic Car Restoration (CCR), Automotive Technology and Auto Body Technol-ogy programs. This year’s raffle car is a true SS-meaning a Super Sport model. The drive train consists of a stock 8.1 liter late model fuel injected GM engine. It uses the latest in computerized technology and incorporates a modified computer chip. The power plant is coupled to a 700R4 auto-matic transmission and a stock GM rear end. “One of our goals is to build a car that the general public can drive,” said Bryan Herrick, the Automo-tive Technology instructor connected to the CCR program. His students were responsible for the drive train on the Impala. The car will tour the state over the summer, making appearances at car shows, parades and cruise night events. A total of 10,000 raffle tickets are up for grabs at a price of $10 each. Proceeds will be used for scholarships for students in the Automotive Technology and Auto Body Technology programs and to help offset the cost of producing another raffle car next year.

ECONOMY LOOKS PROMISING An expert says the prospects for Nebraska’s economy look promising in the long-term. Eric Thompson, director of the University of Nebraska Lin-coln Bureau of Business Research, says their forecast shows the non-farm economy will have solid growth through 2019. “We think employment will grow by about 1% per year in the state, which is about 10,000 new jobs each year,” Thompson says. “Strong sectors will include construction, health care, business services and entertainment and recreation, and the finance sector.” Thompson says, however, the weak farm economy will continue to hamper Nebraska’s economic growth during the next three years. “Agriculture is one sector of the economy where growth will be poor,” he says. “We’re expecting ag income, farm income to actually drop again in 2017 and then bounce back but only slightly in 2018 and 2019.” Thompson says farm income is expected to rise four-percent next year and more than seven-percent the following year mostly as a result of improved productivity. He says they don’t expect a rebound in crop prices.

KEYSTONE XL WOULD BE DISASTROUS Experts testifying on behalf of Bold Nebraska say that the Keystone XL

would be disastrous for the state’s natural resources and would increase deaths of endangered whooping cranes from striking 68 miles of new electrical transmission lines. “We need to reduce the threats to this magnifi-cent bird, not increase them,” said one of the experts, Paul Johnsgard, an authority on whooping cranes and a retired University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor. Johnsgard and the others submitted written testimony Monday on behalf of the Sierra Club, Bold Nebraska and others objecting to the pipeline’s impact on natural resources. The trio said the state should reject the project’s route across the state, or, at the very least, shift it to eastern Nebraska, where there are fewer stream crossings and fewer miles of sandy/porous soils and where land has already been disturbed by farm-ing. “The KXL application downplays the measurable benefits of co-locating” it with the existing Keystone pipeline that crosses eastern Ne-braska, Thomas David Hayes, an Austin, Texas-based environmental scien-tist, said in his testimony.

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game this Saturday is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. CT, and will

feature Cal State Fullerton (39-22) against No. 1 national seed

Oregon State (54-4). Saturday’s second game features No. 4

national seed LSU (48-17) against Florida State (45-21), and is

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features the No. 7 national seed Louisville (52-10) vs. Texas

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p.m. CT, No. 6 national seed TCU (47-16) will be squaring off

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day’s two games will play at 1 p.m. CT Monday, June 19. While

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day, June 20. Sunday’s winners will meet Tuesday, June 20 at 6

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After spending the last four years as the starting quarterback

at Nebraska Tommy Armstrong is trying to make it in the NFL

as a defensive back. Armstrong has switched to safety for the

Minnesota Vikings and is going through Organized Team Activi-

ties. Armstrong says right now the focus is on fundamentals.

“And get as much practice as I can and just get out here and get

prepared”, said Armstrong. “It is hard but at the same time it is

not supposed to be easy.” Armstrong started 44 games for the

Huskers and owns eighth career records, including total of-

fense. He says safety is not a completely new position for him.

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