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ELECTIVE SURGERIES Governor Pete Ricketts talked about best practices to resume elective surgeries at dental offices and dining in restaurants. Dental facilities with sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) can resume opera-tions in Nebraska as of Monday, May 4th. In some regions of Ne-braska, restaurants will be able to reopen their dining areas on May 4th as well. Zoe Olson, Executive Director of the Nebraska Restaurant Association, overviewed the safety precautions restaurants are taking as they prepare to serve guests. Dr. Charles “Fritz” Craft, Director of Dental Health for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and Dr. Ken Tusha, past president of the Nebraska Dental Association (NDA), also joined the Governor today. They talked about their industry’s efforts to ensure that the reopening of dental clinics takes place safely and smoothly. Nebraskans have com-pleted about 100,000 health assessments as of this morning. The Gov-ernor is encouraging every Nebraskan to go to TestNebraska.com right now and to fill out this quick assessment. He said they expecting scheduling for the first two Test Nebraska testing sites in Grand Island and Omaha to begin soon. SHOP MCCOOK Shop McCook (shopmccook.org), an initiative of the McCook Chamber of Commerce, has now exceeded $1,600 in local gift card purchases and has been visited by over 800 people. The McCook Chamber pur-chases the gift cards from the businesses with checks to avoid credit card fees for the business and mails the cards to the purchaser. This program allows people to support our local businesses without leaving the comfort of their home (feel free to visit them in person if you feel comfortable). The Chamber of Commerce hopes that the McCook com-munity will continue to support our local businesses. When our busi-nesses thrive, our community thrives. Members and nonmembers are able to get their gift cards listed on the Shop McCook site.

EMERGENCY GRANTS AVAILABLE Emergency grants are available to Mid-Plains Community College students who have experienced hardship as a result of COVID-19. The application can be found online at mpcc.edu/coronavirusinformation. The assistance is part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The act includes a Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) that provides emergency funding to institutions to be used in the form of emergency financial aid grants for student expenses related to the disruption of campus operations due to the COVID-19 crisis. To be eligible, students must meet the following qualifications: Be enrolled at MPCC for Spring 2020 past March 13, 2020. Have a 2019-20 FAFSA on file with MPCC. Be eligible for federal financial aid (also known as Title IV) and have incurred an eligible expense related to COVID-19. Interna-tional and undocumented students, as well as students who were en-rolled exclusively online prior to March 13, 2020, are not eligible for HEERF funds. Students who have not completed a FAFSA for 2019-20, but who wish to apply for the funds, or those who have questions about their eligibility, can contact Erinn Brown, MPCC area director of financial aid, at (308) 345-8112 or browne@mpcc.edu.

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SPORTS The Nebraska Coaches Association all-star games set for July

will not take place, the NCA announced Tuesday afternoon.

"With great sadness, but with the intention of protecting stu-

dent-athletes, coaches, family members and the communities

they live (and) work in, the 2020 all-star games will not be

played," the NCA announced via Twitter. The announcement

came hours after the NCA revealed the players for the boys

basketball game, which was set to feature a pair of first-team

Super-Staters in Lincoln North Star's Donovan Williams

(Oklahoma State) and Omaha Central's Latrell Wrightsell Jr.

(Cal State Fullerton). The games were scheduled to take place

the week of July 20 in Lincoln. The NCA was also scheduled to

host the National High School Athletic Coaches Association

2020 convention in conjunction with the NCA annual multi-sport

clinic July 19-23. That was been postponed to July 26-29, 2021.

Earlier this month, the Shrine Bowl football game, originally

scheduled for June 6 in Kearney, was postponed to a still

undetermined date in July.

Nebraska backup quarterback and Wahoo native Noah Vedral

has decided to leave the Husker football program. Vedral an-

nounced on social media that he was entering the NCAA trans-

fer portal. Vedral began his career at Central Florida and then

followed head coach Scott Frost to Lincoln. Last year he ap-

peared in six games with two starts. He passed for over 400

yards for the Huskers. Vedral has already graduated and has

two years of eligibility remaining.

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