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Hope Campaign—Hope Crisis Center members Mandy, Mindy and Cari display the process made so far for their Build-ing Hope Campaign.

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Reminder To Be Safe And Vigilant

From The Jefferson Co. Sheriff’s OfficeJefferson County law enforcement is advis-

ing the public to remain vigilant following a report from December 14 of suspicious activity near Reynolds.On that date, it was reported that an indi-

vidual was stopped by an unknown person who was impersonating a law enforcement officer. The vehicle was described to be a dark colored Dodge Charger or similar sedan with flashing red and yellow lights in the windshield. The unidentified male was reported to have

a badge and possibly handcuffs and a hand gun. Law enforcement searched the area, but no vehicles matching the description could be found.A public service announcement was put

out on December 15 informing the public that law enforcement vehicles in Nebraska do not have yellow and red lights equipped on their patrol vehicles. They have red and blue lights mounted on the roof and front grill areas. No further information has been reported

at this time; however, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office would like to remind the pub-lic to report any suspicious behavior and activity immediately.

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Because of increased influenza activity in our area, Jefferson Community Health & Life and Cedarwood are requiring visi-tors, volunteers and staff who have not been immunized to wear masks when in the facili-ties. In addition, JCH&L re-minds the public that anyone who has been exposed to influ-enza or has symptoms should not visit. This includes the hospital, Gardenside and Cedar-wood assisted living.“We are taking this step in

order to protect our patients and residents,” said Erin Starr, chief quality officer.Public health influenza sur-

veillance systems are showing a marked increase in influenza activity throughout the state in

the past week, including areas close to Jefferson County.Influenza symptoms include

fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, fatigue, and sometimes vomiting and diar-rhea. The Centers for Disease Control recommends that any-one with influenza symptoms stay home and avoid contact with others except to receive medical care. Check with your doctor promptly if you are at high risk of serious flu complica-tions and you get flu symptoms. People at high risk of flu compli-cations include young children, adults 65 years of age and older, pregnant women, and people with certain medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes and

heart disease.The CDC lists these steps to

prevent influenza:*Try to avoid close contact with

sick people.*While sick, limit contact with

others as much as possible to keep from infecting them.*Stay home at least

24 hours after your fever is gone (without medication).*Cover your nose and

mouth with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. After using a tissue, throw it in the trash and wash your hands.*Wash your hands

often with soap and

water.*Avoid touching your eyes,

nose and mouth.*Clean and disinfect surfaces

and objects that may be con-taminated with germs.

Influenza Rates Mandate Caution, Masking

The Fairbury chapter of the Hope Crisis Center is mov-ing to a new location. The Hope Crisis Center

has helped families rebuild their lives away from vio-lence since 1992. Formally a branch of Blue Valley Com-munity Action, the Hope Cri-sis Center became its own independent organization in 2006 after seeing a need for domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy.Of the many services the

organization offers to benefit their communities, the most essential they could argue is shelter. Victims of violence who do not have a safe place to go are forced to choose between returning to the vio-lence or to go homeless. Last year the Hope Crisis

Center provided 1,278 night of shelter. The organization utilizes primarily hotels for safe places to stay, but as director Carmen Hinman

pointed out, sometimes there is no available space. “It is hard to find available

space especially during the holidays or when there is an event nearby,” Hinman said. With this uncertainty, the

Hope Crisis Center launched the Building Hope Capi-tal Campaign to support renovations of a new facility that will feature two secure apartment-style shelters, trauma-informed client spaces, and their adminis-trative offices.They launched the cam-

paign with the goal to com-pletely fund the $550,000 project within three years. Since the initial launch of the campaign, they have already received $126,854 from generous businesses, foundations, and individu-als. Construction for the reno-

vations started in late Octo-ber 2018 and the space and shelters are project to be ready for use in early 2019. The second level of the

facility has two apartment-

style shelters designed specifically to host fami-lies. Previously, hotels and motels were used to shelter families due to having only one apartment-style shelter. “Our whole goal of it is safe

shelter,” Hinman said. The new facility will take

the place of a former pottery shop on 4th Street. Accord-ing to Hinman, the entire lower level was completely gutted and much of the original architecture was re-stored. Hinman commented that the original brick was uncovered and even the original spiral staircase was incorporated into the reno-vations. The Hope Crisis Center was

able to receive a loan from USDA to fund the beginning stages of the project. “We want to be able to free

up our money, even this, the dollars that we pay here, so that’s ultimately money we can free up for drug servic-

Building Hope For FamiliesA Jefferson County

resident is helping to make a big dif-ference to a lot of animals through a charitable organiza-tion. Jonie Blauvelt of Alexandria spoke to Fairbury Jour-nal-News about how she is part a heart-warming organiza-tion out of Lincoln. The Dolly’s Legacy

Animal Rescue is a foster and adoption agency, rescuing animals from high kill shelters. Dolly’s Legacy started in August 2013 and according to Stitt the agency has rescued roughly 1,400 ani-mals. “The goal is much

more,” Blauvelt said. She noted that they

get a lot of animals

from southern states where there seems to be a higher number of high kill shelters.“Like Oklahoma,

Texas, they seem to have the higher number of kill shel-ters,” Blauvelt said. “Their shelters, when I speak of shelters, they’re like outdoor shelters. Some of their situ-ations that some of these cats and dogs are in are really terrible situations: starving, beat-up, come with wounds, heartworm, I mean, you name it, we take it on.”The rescue nurses

the animals back to health and foster them out to volun-teer families until they are adopted.

Dolly’s Legacy

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are walk-in ready; however, as accord-ing to Hinman, there was a lot of liability and safety measures that had to be taken. Meeting the fire code was one mea-sure that had to be updated. Since the lower level previ-ously was a retailer, there was more work that had to go into the remodel.“The bottom was

not user friendly for office space for us,” Hinman said. “So, the bottom was pretty much gutted.”Handicap acces-

sible restrooms and entrances were also added to meet codes under their grant funding sources. According to Man-

dy, a member of the Fairbury Hope Crisis Center office, she has spent a signifi-cant amount of time applying for grants and other avenues that would help alle-viate the cost of the project.

“Over the last couple years I have worked on numer-ous foundation grants that have provided the bulk of what we’ve got so far,” she said. Letters were mailed

out to the seven counties to over a thousand people. Hinman stressed that although the new facility is locat-ed in Fairbury, it will serve all their cover-age area. “Although it’s going

to be in Jefferson County, we, because we cover seven coun-ties, and because we of the work we do, obviously safety is a concern,” Hinman said. “We don’t obvi-ously don’t give out details where indi-viduals are sheltered at and so it may be that we shelter indi-viduals from other counties.”Depending on the

individual case and the situation, Hin-man commented that it is better sometimes to re-moved individuals from the county they live in and some-

times they choose to stay if they have kids in school or other circumstances. Hinman noted

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the Hope Crisis Cen-ter has sheltered an estimated 500 peo-ple. Of that number an estimated 100 or so involved children or were families. Although there is

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Ronald J. Barber Sr., 81 years of age, of Diller passed away Sunday, December 23, 2018 at Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center. He was born on July 20, 1937 in Beatrice to Ralph and Gladys (Powell) Barber. He loved Nebraska foot-ball and the Denver Broncos but mostly, his wife and family.Ron is survived

by his wife, Carol; daughters, Linda Garcia and husband John of Diller, Chris

Zaiger and husband Lou of Essex, Iowa; son, Ronald Jr. and wife Jackie of Har-bine; 6 grandchil-dren; 9 great grand-children; 2 brothers; and 2 sisters. He was preceded in death by his par-ents; brothers, Jim and Ralph; and sis-ters, Darlene Walters and Etta Crane.Funeral Services

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Ella Louise Wil-helmine (Hueske) Nispel, 100 years of age, of Beatrice, formerly of Plymouth passed away Mon-day, December 24, 2018 at the Good Samaritan Society in Beatrice. She was born on June 20, 1918 at DeWitt to August and Ag-atha (Grabowski) Hueske. Ella mar-ried Arthur Nispel on November 6, 1952 in Plymouth. They lived on the family farm northwest of Plymouth until 1972 when they moved into Plymouth. Ella resided there until July of this year.Ella is survived by

daughters, Donna Jung and husband Barry of Plymouth, Marcia Nispel of Beatrice; grandchil-dren, Bruce Jung

and special friend Jennifer Rupprecht of Fairbury, Brian Jung and wife Stacie of Lincoln; grand-puppy, Libbie of Lincoln; sisters-in law, Vernelle Hueske of Beatrice, Libbie Hueske of Clarks-ville, Virginia; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Arthur on December 22, 1983; brothers, Herbert, Alfred, Milton, Har-ry, Roland, Lavern; and sisters, Viola Blome and Wilma Schmidt.Funeral Services

will be held at 10:30 AM Saturday, De-cember 29, 2018 at St. Paul’s Evangeli-cal Lutheran Church in Plymouth with Pastor Fred Berger officiating. Inter-

ment will follow in the St. Paul’s Cemetery near Plym-outh. A family prayer services will be held at 10 a.m. at the church on Satur-day. Visitation will be held from 1 to 8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, December 28, 2018 at Harman-Wright Mortuary in Plym-outh. Memorials are suggested to the church in care of the mortuary. Con-dolences may be left online at www.harmanwrightmor-tuary.com. Harman-Wright Mortuary in Plymouth in charge of arrangements. b

Donald Arthur Mueller, age 84 passed away on Monday, December 24, 2018. Donald was born February 24, 1934 in Plym-outh, Nebraska. Don was a supervi-sor for Western Elec-tric / AT & T. He also was a member of the Gretna Legion

Post 216. Preceded in death

by his parents, Ar-thur and Lillie Muel-ler, his wife Ruby, his brothers, Leon-ard, Maurice and sister Marjorie. Survived by son,

Craig Mueller and his fiancé Lynn Wood. Funeral Service

was Decem-ber 29, 2018 at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home.In lieu of flowers

memorials can be made to Gary Sinise Foundation. b

John Richard Walter, 67, of Greenleaf, Kan., died Wednesday, Decem-ber 26, 2018 at the Washington County Hospital.Mass of Christian

Burial was held December 28 at Sacred Heart Catho-lic Church. Father Joseph Kieffer offici-ated. Burial was in St.

Michael’s Catholic Cemetery, Kimeo.John was born

May 10, 1951 at Concordia, Kan., to Leonard and Bon-nie (Downey) Walter. In 1969, he gradu-ated from Linn High School. He farmed and raised mostly Hereford cattle his entire life near Kimeo.He enjoyed hunt-

ing, fishing and 3D archery shooting. John was a past vol-unteer fireman.

He was preceded in death by his parents; infant daugh-ter, Mary Catherine Walter; and infant brother, Robert Wal-ter.Survivors in-

clude his wife, Sally; daughters, Linda (Darren) Bott, Palmer, Lori (John) Ohlde, Fairbury, NE, and Lisa (John) Kern, Washington; sisters, Lenar (Terry) Hoover, and Marilyn (Ron) Laflin, both of Greenleaf; brother, Marlon (Diane) Walter, Palmer; and eight grandchildren.A memorial fund is

established and will be designated later. Contributions may be sent in care of Ward Funeral Home, Washington. b

Jerry G. Armstrong, 83, a resident of Her-itage Care Center of Fairbury, passed away suddenly on December 17, 2018. Cremation has taken place. A Memorial service will be held at a later date for friends in Fairbury.

Mark Joseph Law-rence, 61, of Fair-bury, passed away December 20th, 2018 at JCHC Fair-bury Hospital; sur-rounded by his lov-ing family. He was born November 6th, 1957 to Clyde and Betty (Rentschler) Lawrence in Omaha, NE. Mark was a bib-liophile, history buff particularly on the Civil War, and music lover. He worked at Westin Foods in Fairbury. Mark was preceded in death by his father Clyde Lawrence, by his wife Patricia (Bus-ing) Lawrence. Survivors include

daughter Sarah Behm and husband Pat, Fort Riley, KS, daughter Rachel Lawrence, Lin-coln, son Sebastian Lawrence, Lincoln, son Paul Lawrence,

Omaha, daugh-ter Mary Lawrence, Kearney, mother Betty Lawrence, Diller, brother Pat Lawrence and wife Annie, Lincoln, sister Connie Bures and husband Terry, Ellis, sister Cory Schraeder and hus-band Kenny, Bea-trice, sister Colleen Lindley and hus-band Jerry, Plym-outh, brother Lance Lawrence and wife Michelle, Hanover, KS, 6 grandchil-dren, uncle Clifford Rentschler, Omaha and Larry Schultz, Elkhorn, aunt Ethel Boese, Lincoln and Harriet Birkel, Oma-ha, many nieces, nephews, cousins and good friend Lois Green of Fairbury. b

He Forgot What?I remember reading

a story about Ameri-can football coach Vince Lombardi’s incredible sense of focus. Apparently, one time he was so focused on football that he walked out of the locker room without his pants. He forgot to put on his pants!I doubt it ever oc-

curred to anyone to say, “Hey Coach, re-member to put your pants on.” Sounds like silly counsel for a grown man. Get-ting dressed is an elementary concept, after all.In 2 Timothy 2:8,

Paul tells Timothy, “Remember Jesus Christ.” It almost sounds elementary, doesn’t it? We’re tempted to think, “Jesus? Ok, got it. Learned Jesus Loves

Me when I was a kid. What’s next?”But that’s not the

way Paul thinks. Amidst pressure, po-tential suffering and persecution, Paul goes back to the ba-sics, “Remember Je-sus Christ.” I think he does this for at least two reasons.First, we forget.

We don’t forget the words or the person of Jesus, but we for-get the deep, abiding truth and beauty of Jesus Christ. Amidst busy-ness, we forget. Mired in difficulty and grief, we forget. Overwhelmed by stress, we forget. Bombarded with dis-tractions, we forget. You wouldn’t think we would forget, but we do (You wouldn’t think that Coach Lombardi would for-get his pants, but he

did). And if we think we’re too advanced for the elementary truths, then we’ve already forgotten. So let’s sing Jesus Loves Me again to remember the abid-ing truth and beauty of Jesus Christ.Second, Paul tells

Timothy to “Remem-ber Jesus Christ” because Jesus is sufficient. He is the death conquer-ing, “risen from the dead,” God in the flesh Savior. He is bigger than any distraction, obstacle, or circumstance. He is the Promised One who has always been and will always be. I think that’s why Paul calls Him “offspring of David,” the Messiah prom-ised of old. History has never been out of His control. Res-

cue has always been His plan. So He is suf-ficient for all of time. We can trust Him with our future; a future in which we will reign with Him if we endure (2 Tim. 2:12).So it turns out

Jesus Loves Me is richer, deeper, and more profound that we realized! I don’t know what would have happened if someone would have told Coach Lom-bardi, “Remember your pants!” But I do know we need to be often encouraged to “Remember Jesus Christ.”Kyle BendorfPastorFirst Baptist Church

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The Dictionary of Don’t IVIt’s that time of year

again. The time of year when I become irra-tionally angry about words, and then inflict that anger on you. After a year of watch-ing and reading and listening and generally absorbing the news, there are certain words and phrases that I des-perately hope I never encounter again.Tape: I have lost

count of the number of time some politician or celebrity or some other prominent citizen was “caught on tape” or “tape recorded” or “videotaped” saying something stupid. So what is the problem I have with the word “tape?” It’s the 21st Century. Nobody uses tape anymore. Every-thing is digital now. No tape was used in the recording of any of this stupidity. When was the last time you even saw a strip of magnetic recording tape, let alone a tape recorder?Unpack: To television

newscasters every-where: news is not something you “un-pack,” unless “news” is your word for dirty laundry after a two-

week vacation to some overpriced resort, be-cause all newscasters are overpaid.Energized: I heard

this over and over dur-ing the last election cycle. There was this constant debate about which side was more energized. Whichever team was more ener-gized would presum-ably win. Well, that is all just so much eyewash. Nobody votes because they are “en-ergized.” People vote because they are angry or afraid or just plain sick of politicians and their lies. A long known truth

about voting is that the primary motivation for voters is not the love of one candidate but hatred and contempt for his/her opponent. If voters could simply vote against a candi-date, rather than for, voter turnout would probably reach near 100 percent every time.Blank Derangement

Syndrome: This be-came a thing during the George W. Bush years. Bush the younger

made a lot of people pretty angry by being

president. He was a Republican, so most of those angry folks were Democrats. To be fair, Bush did a lot of stupid stuff, too, that earned him the ire of some Americans. For those who supported Bush, rather than trying to defend his policies, it was easier just to blame all that criticism on “Bush De-rangement Syndrome.” The implication was that people criticized him just because he was George W. Bush.It was an easy way

to dismiss criticism. So easy that, when Barack Obama became president, Democrats decided to adopt it. There was no legiti-mate criticism of the president. It was just Obama Derangement syndrome. This was easily one

of the dumber moves by Democrats because now it has entered the political lexicon and further degraded our ability to debate.Nothingburger: How

did this even become a thing?Apples and Oranges:

This is not so much overused by the media

as by politicians who appear on the media to justify terrible deci-sions. The problem with pol-

iticians is not simply that they make terrible policies but that they quite often make the same terrible policies over and over. So a newscaster says

to a politician with a terrible idea, “You just did this thing two years ago and it was a disaster. Why are do-ing it again?”The politician re-

sponds with, “You’re comparing apples and oranges.”Here is the real truth

about comparing apples and oranges. If I run over an apple

with a car, I end up with nothing but a big wet splotch in the street. If I run over an orange with a car, I get the up with the same thing.

GORDONHOPKINS

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Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) has asked that his pay be withheld until the end of the government shut down.Bacon sent a letter to the Chief Adminis-

trative Officer of the House of Representa-tives asking to have his pay withheld until an agreement to fund the whole govern-ment is approved.“I believe that Members of Congress

should be treated the same as all other federal employees who are impacted by a government shutdown.”I don’t understand why this grandstand-

ing point is even considered as this should not have to be pointed out, all members of Congress are members of the government employee ranks. Therefore, they should not get paid until everyone else does, so by pointing that out, to me, is a bit disin-genuous to note that they will voluntarily have their pay withheld. As much as it sounds like political pos-

turing by Bacon, at least he spoke up and took the opportunity. I don’t hear many other members of Congress doing some-thing like this, only merely barking at the other side of the aisle over issues sub-stantial and ludicrous.Members of Congress get a lifelong pen-

sion, healthcare subsidies and other benefits most Americans will never see, so I believe they should at least follow the rules of payday like everyone else.There has to be a compromise in the

details of getting the government funded again, as if this all comes down to the wall, then tackle that issue as Americans not Democrats versus Republicans. An-other idea would be for Congress to all take pay cuts and forego their $1.2 million allowance each year to staff and manager their offices. We could divert funds we give to third world nations annually to pay for the wall and once it is paid off, then you’ll get your funds again, but, we as a nation, need to worry about America first, it has just come down to that point.We are at critical mass in the country

over various differences in ideals when it doesn’t have to be this way. If all of the politicians cared more about the whole benefit of the nation and not about which side wins, we’d be better off.

Quick QuipsBy Tim LinscottWell, Santa brought Elijah a drum kit. He

immediately jumped behind the kit, grabbed the sticks and began pounding away on ‘the skins.’He didn’t do too bad drumming and so

now I guess it is time for lessons. We will give him a few weeks to pound around and get a feel for things, and then will try to find someone to give him some lessons.

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Fairbury Jr./Sr. High School Students of the month-7th Graders: Adam Mascarenas, Schuylar Malone, 8th Grad-ers: Cobie Cole, Jackson Martin

Four Christmas at Concordia concerts brought more than 3,000 guests, including Seward County residents, from Nebraska and other states, Concordia alumni, stu-dents, and others to St. John Lutheran Church near campus. Local participants are Nathan Klaumann and Seth Hart of Fair-bury.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln con-ferred 1,551 degrees during commencement exercises Dec. 14 and 15.Following is a list of area graduates by

hometown. Fairbury: Shelby Morgan Blecha, College of Education and Human Sciences, Bachelor of Science in Education and Hu-man Sciences with distinction.Plymouth: Justin Daniel Epp, College of

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Jace 6th grade, and Wesley who is in the 4th grade. On December 12, 2017 Amanda and Brian Snook were involved in a car accident that left Amanda paralyzed from the waist down. She was life-flighted to Bryan Hospital and was kept in ICU for 1 week. Brian was transported to Bryan Hospital by ambu-lance. Amanda was then transferred to Madonna Rehabili-tation Center for 2 months for rehabili-tation.Amanda and Brain

have insurance, but many of the expenses have not been covered. Some of those expenses would be: remodel-ing of the house for handicapped accessibility, a handicapped vehicle, continuing medica-tion, and many other expenses and equip-ment needed for her future. Amanda is a Fairbury graduate and is anemployee of Fair-

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Game of the Week

By Nathan HeuerComing off their worst offensive half of the

season, Griffins sophomore guard Addison Heidemann and company refocused and made the final 16 minutes of their home-stand vs. Meridian on Thursday their best half of the season thus far.Diller-Odell was starring down a 16-7

deficit at halftime against the neighboring Mustangs. Diller-Odell scored two points in the first quarter and managed only one free throw attempt in the first half.Both of those stats would drastically

change after half.Heidemann, a 2021 Iowa State volleyball

commit, scored 18 of her game-high 21 points in the second half, including four 3-pointers in Diller-Odell’s 45-41 win over Meridian.“It was just one of those games where it

was ugly but we found a way to work hard and make some plays,” Diller-Odell head girls basketball John Mohr said.The Griffins turned the game into a free

throw shooting marathon in the second half and took away Meridian’s top two leading scorers in Halle Pribyl and Josiee Sobotka who both fouled out in the final 16 minutes of play.Diller-Odell attempted 23 free throws in

the second half, making 10.While that was not necessarily Diller-

Odell’s goal in the second half according to Mohr, he pointed to his team’s improvement in focus as the main reason why they had a drastic turnaround. “We just kind of refocused a little bit and

made some shots. We did a great job, obvi-ously we had a very poor first half only scor-ing seven points. We came out and got the lead there in the third quarter and we actu-ally could of extended it but we turned the ball over,” Mohr said. “In the fourth quarter Sobotka made some plays driving in and scoring. Then we refocused and Addison hit a few shots there and our post did some good things inside I thought in the second half as well.”Meridian’s Pribyl was held to a season-low

two points after averaging nearly 10 points a game heading into the game. Sobotka scored a season-high 23 points on 10-of-21 shooting.For Diller-Odell, Heidemann reached

double-digit scoring for the eighth time in nine games. She is now averaging just over 13 points per game this season.Griffins junior Haley Jones proved just as

crucial in the Griffins success on Thursday. She hit 3-of-4 free throw attempts in the final two minutes to help maintain the lead for her team. She finished the contest with a career-high 11 points on 3-of-7 shooting from the field.Mohr said Jones’ performance stacks up

with or just may be the best outing of her career on a basketball court.“I would say so (clutch as he’s seen Haley

Jones). She’s about a 50 percent or more free throw shooter. That was important, obviously we could of hit some earlier,” he said.Diller-Odell outscored the Mustangs 38-

25 in the second half. Dominance on the boards was a key to the Griffins success. The home team outrebounded Meridian 40-27, 13 of which were offensive rebounds.In the boys game that followed, Diller-Odell

cruised to a 53-18 victory in a game that they were never threatened.William McLaughlin led Diller-Odell with

COMEBACK KIDSHeidemann’s 18 Second Half Points Powers Griffins Second Half Comeback

16 points on 6-of-7 shooting from the field and fellow senior Bryston Warren added 12 points for the Griffins. McLaughlin has now recorded double digit points in eight of the Griffins 10 games. Warren has done so in

seven games.The 35-point win was their biggest win of

the year in terms of point margin as their previous high was a 22-point win over Paw-nee City to open the season.

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Going Inside—(Above) Emily Swanson of Diller-Odell goes up strong against a host of Meridian players during the Grif-fins versus Meridian game last Thursday. (Below) Andi Kort soars over Diller-Odell players on her way to the basket. Kort and the Mustangs were edged by Diller-Odell by four points last week.

By Nathan HeuerFairbury’s 2-6 start to season – due to fac-

ing five state-rated opponents – is now on the mend.The Jeffs and first-year head coach Lyle

Thompson are streaking into 2019 with three consecutive wins under their belt after claiming the Lincoln Lutheran Tournament title on Saturday.The Lady Jeffs started the four-team com-

petition with a convincing 43-17 victory over Class B Holdrege on Friday. Fairbury’s three post players – Sara Huss, Karly Mc-Cord, Jessa Eden -- contributed a total of 29 points for the Jeffs in the contest. Huss and Eden tied for a game-high 10

points.Thompson liked what he saw from his de-

fense in the game.“We did play solid on defense for the most

part, which allowed us to survive while we were waiting for a bit of offense. In fact, it was our defense in the late third and early

Fairbury Girls Basketball Claim Lincoln Lutheran Tourney Titlefourth quarter that allowed us to get three or four easy baskets that gave us a little breathing room,” he saidHoldrege’s 17 points is the lowest point

total the Jeffs have held an opponent to this season.Fairbury advanced to face Lincoln Lu-

theran in the tourney’s title game and Ellie Ohlde’s career day carried the Lady Jeffs to 41-26 victory. The sophomore point guard scored 20 points, more than double her pre-vious career high (eight points), propelling the Jeffs to their third straight victory.“It was one of our best offensive games of

the season from an all-around standpoint. Smart decisions, shot selection, under-standing game situations, limited turnovers, hitting key free throws, that kind of thing. It was a really big win for us,” Thompson said.Eden hit double digit scoring for the sixth

time this season with 10 points against Lincoln Lutheran. Junior Jaelle Johnson

six points via 4-of-6 shooting at the charity stripe and a 2-point field goal.The win improved the Jeffs record to 5-6

heading into 2019. Thompson hopes the pair of victories builds the momentum they’ll need to be success the second half of the season.“Even though Lincoln Lutheran doesn’t

have a great record, they are much like us in that they have a nice team and have played a very tough schedule. Hopefully this is a win we can build off of these next cou-ple of weeks,” he said.The Fairbury boys basketball team lost

their lone game of the Lincoln Lutheran tournament against Holdrege by the score of 57-50.Stats were unavailable by press time. The

loss moves the Jeffs record to 3-6. They have now lost four straight games.Both teams will head to Tri County on Jan.

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Without their lone returning state placer, Seth Firmanik (182), the Fairbury wrestling still managed to find success behind unde-feated outings from seniors Ace York (170) and Brandon Hinrichs (152) at the Badger Duals on Saturday in Bennington.Fairbury came away victorious in two of

their five duals at the 10-team competition to earn a sixth-place finish as a team.The Jeffs defeated Bennington JV 48-27

and Ralston by the score of 42-38. Fair-bury fell against top-ranked Class B Omaha Skutt Catholic 49-30, Bellevue East 60-24, and Elkhorn South 48-24.

Michael Noel led the Meridian wrestling team at the Fillmore Central Holiday Tournament on Saturday with a runner-up finish at 195 pounds. The returning state qualifier pinned four consecutive op-ponents on his way to the finals. He lost to Kobe Lyons of York by fall in the finals. Noel now has a 16-2 record this season.Lane Barton claimed the second high-

est finish for Meridian with a fourth-place finish at 113-pounds. Barton won his first two matches by fall before losing his final three matches. He’s 12-5 heading into 2019.Zach Kerwood added a fifth-place finish

at heavyweight for the Mustangs. Jenik Green (106) and Hector Nunez (182) took sixth place in their respective divisions.Meridian finished in 10th place as a

team at the 18-team event. They tallied 65 points as a team. York won the event with 199 points, edging Oakland-Craig who finished with 197 points.

Basketball Roundup Dec. 27-29BoysNebraska Christian 57 Thayer Central

49Thayer Central fell to Nebraska Christian

in the first round of the Nebraska Wesleyan Holiday Tournament on Thursday.Tri County 66 Diller-Odell 37Tri County received 24 points from Cole

Siems and 19 points from Creighton Nie-meyer in their 29-point win at Diller-Odell on Friday. They’re heading into 2019 with a 6-3 record.Walthill 77 Thayer Central 63The Titans finished the Nebraska Wesleyan

Holiday Tournament with an 0-2 record via a loss to 14-point loss to Walthill on Friday. Their record is now 1-7.Malcolm 47 Wilber-Clatonia 46Malcolm handed Wilber-Clatonia their first

loss of the 2018-2019 season on Friday in Malcolm’s Holiday Tournament. Malcolm did so in overtime.Oakland-Craig 60 Wilber-Clatonia 36Wilber-Clatonia suffered their second

straight loss on Saturday after starting the season 8-0. Oakland-Craig is in Class C-2 and owns a 7-5 record.GirlsThayer Central 48 Nebraska Christian

36Thayer Central defeated Nebraska by 12

points in the first round of the Nebraska Wesleyan Holiday Tournament on Thursday.Diller-Odell 45 Tri County 42Addison Heidemann scored a game-high

19 points for the Trojans while Emily Swan-son added 11 for the Griffins to help secure Diller-Odell’s sixth win of the season on Friday. The Griffins improved their record to 6-4 with the win. Tri County fell to 3-6 on the season with the loss.Thayer Central 44 Auburn 39Thayer Central got arguably their most

significant win of the year on Friday with a five-point win over Auburn in the semifinals of the Nebraska Wesleyan Holiday Tourna-ment. Auburn was a Class C-1 ratings con-tender according to the Lincoln Journal Star heading into the matchup.Humphrey St. Francis 72 Thayer Central

66The Thayer Central girls basketball team

gave top-ranked Class D-2 Humphrey St. Francis all they could handle on Saturday during the Nebraska Wesleyan Holiday Tournament Championship, but came up six points short. The Lady Titans leave the tournament with a 7-3 record this season.Malcolm 54 Wilber-Clatonia 18Wilber-Clatonia’s Tia Kreschel scored eight

points for the Wolverines – the second-highest total in her career – in her team’s 36-point loss to Malcolm on Friday in the first round of the Malcolm Holiday Tourna-ment.Centennial 53 Wilber-Clatonia 8Wilber-Clatonia recorded their 10th con-

secutive loss to start the season on Satur-day in their 45-point loss to Centennial.

Basketball Roundup

Meridian Places Two In Top

Four AtFillmore Central

York and Hinrichs wrestled four matches apiece and they each earned pins in all their matches.Freshman 195-pounder Domenic Hyson

had the best outing of his young career, recording a 4-1 record in four contested matches. He earned pins in all three of his contested victories.Kazz Hyson (220) and Tommy Kroeker

(285) each tallied 3-2 records, capping Fairbury wrestlers who registered winning records at the dual tourney.Second-ranked Class B Wahoo defeated

Skutt Catholic 39-31 to win the event.

York, Hinrichs Go UndefeatedAt Bennington Duals

Photo by Nathan Heuer/fairburyjournalnewsBig Pass—Armando Jones of Diller-Odell looks to pass to teammate William Mclaughlin over Mario Garcia (No. 20) of Meridian.

Photos by Nathan Heuer/fairburyjournalnews

Soaring—(Above) Lucas Weise soars up over two Diller-Odell players during the Trojans versus Griffins match up. (Right) Cassidy Kowalski of Tri County shows no fear as she drives to the hoop during varsity action last week.

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1873The editor of The

Fairbury Gazette took a vacation, so no paper was issued the last week of De-cember.

1883There was a brew-

ery at Beatrice, The Fairbury Gazette reported, that had just finished putting up 400 tons of ice, two-inches thick, which made consid-erable cool beer the following summer.

1884Land in the former

Otoe Indian reser-vation in the east part of the county brought an average price of $1 an acre.

1893K. G. Tackley of

Fairbury was hired as a guard at the Columbia exposition at Chicago.The ground was

frozen down a foot and the temperature was 12 below, snow and ice hindering business and travel.

1899Cassius M. Kirby

and Wilhelmina Oberhelman were married by the Rev. William Oeschger in Fairbury on Dec. 31, 1899. Their parents were Charles B. and Emma Cutbirth Kirby of Unionville, Mo., and William and Sophia Kai-zer Oberhelman of Fairbury. The Kirbys had eight children. Grandchil-dren include Marvin Kirby of Lake Win-nebago, Mo., Ruth Cunningham Tuma of Morrowville, Kan., Barb Kirby Schoenrock and Jim Cunningham, and great-nephew, Phil Heidelk, all of Fair-bury.

1913Most of the barbers

in Fairbury agreed to close their shops at 7:30 instead of 8 p.m.

1915As reported in The

Fairbury Journal, a young man named Donald McDonald owed his life to a dog who discovered him sleeping, grave-ly ill near Haddam, Kans., about 20 miles from Fairbury. It seems McDonald walked off his job laying rails for the Burlington line. He became weary while walking home and found shelter in an empty farm house, where he reportedly slept for seven days. The dog evidently scented the unau-thorized visitor and barked until neigh-bors came to inves-tigate. He was taken via train to a hospi-tal in Lincoln. Doc-tors expected him to recover but, due to his lengthy exposure to the cold, might have had to have both feet ampu-tated.

1925Arthur R. Nichols,

former cashier of the failed Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Fairbury was indicted by a federal grand jury on violations of na-tional banking laws.

1937Early settler Peter

Jansen, who came to Jefferson County in 1874 with a col-ony of Mennonites, was honored in the college of agricul-ture hall of fame in

Lincoln.Playing at the Bon-

ham Theatre was “Camille,” starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore.

1938The Fairbury

Journal reported an increase in marriag-es from the previous year, 135, compared with 118. Also, there had been a decrease in divorces.

1939Donna Mae Wagner

was crowned queen of the Fairbury Future Farmers of America chapters.

1949Fire destroyed

the hangar at the Fairbury Municipal Airport.

1959Quivera chapter,

Daughters of the American Revolu-tion, presented its Americanism medal to Luis Castaneda. A native of Cuba, he had attended Fair-bury Junior College for two years, was a sports leader, es-pecially with com-munity youths, was obtaining his citizenship papers and planned to live in the United States. He later became a resident of Las Ve-gas, Nevada.

1961Ernest Dux of

Jefferson County was the Nebraska State Winner the National Selected Five-Acre (Dryland) DeKalb Corn Grow-ing Contest. He won with a yield of 173.71 bushel per acre with DeKalb variety 3 X 2. Mr. Dux produced this outstanding yield by plow planting in 28" rows at 7" spacing. He both fall plowed spring plowed the field. He used a pre-emergence spray of Simazine and also sprayed with 2-4D. The field was culti-vated twice.Fairbury High

School senior Fred Preston III ranked among the top 20 students of the 4,747 taking the state-wide Univer-sity of Nebraska Regents Scholarship examinations this year, according to Principal Harold P. Dietrich. Preston, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Preston Jr., was winner of the Regents Schol-arship for Fairbury High School. The local high school also had 11 stu-dents who earned alternate rank-ing. In order to be named an alternate, a student's test score must be high enough to have won

him a scholarship at some other Nebras-ka high school.Playing at the Bon-

ham Theatre was “Unforgiven,” star-ring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hep-burn.

1967The closing of

Lynch Hospital was announced.

1977A fire on the Jo-

seph T. Vculek property about five miles north of Fairbury destroyed a limestone-and-wood, two-story barn used as a far-rowing house and to store hay. A fire at the Art Schoenrock property, one half mile south of Fair-bury on the Crys-tal Springs Road burned about three acres of grass.The first heavy

snowstorm of the year dropped over seven inches of snow on Jefferson County.The Pioneer-10

spacecraft flew by Jupiter.

1982Ted Doyle, a mem-

ber of the South-east Community College’s Board of Governors, became president of the Nebraska Technical Community College Association.Elmer Bruns was

the youngest barber in Fairbury when he began his career. He was the oldest barber in Fairbury when he retired

1983Movies playing at

the Bonham Theatre were “The Empire Strikes Back,” and “First Blood,” star-ring Sylvester Stal-lone.

1989For the second

year in a row, Me-ridian Schools re-ceived a $5,000 Carl Perkins grant.

1994Gas prices were

at their lowest in recent years, 92.9 cents per gallon for self-service regular unleaded.Eight area resi-

dents filed for coun-ty office in 1994 election. Two people filed for Clerk of the District Court, in-cumbent Katherine Young of Fairbury (R) and Mary Bana-han of Steele City (D). Also, two people have filed for county treasurer, Endicott resident Melvin Nespor (D) and rural Fairbury resident Cynthia Newman (R). Arliss Brown of Fairbury (R) filed for county asses-sor. Incumbents Sandra Stelling (R), Joseph Casson (R)

and Rex Southwick (R) sought reelection to the county clerk, attorney and county sheriff positions.

1997Theresa Hill of

Fairbury, 14 years old, appeared on the January page of the “Old Iron” farm and ranch living calen-dar, which featured

a variety of antique and vintage trac-tors from across the United States. Hill appears sitting on a 1942 John Deere LA tractor that she helped restore.

2000McBattas Publish-

ing of Fairbury, owner of The Fair-bury Journal-News,

purchased the Wy-more Arbor State2005 Renee Pohlmann, a

four year veterinary student from Fair-bury, was inducted into the Kansas Etta chapter of Gamma Sigma delta, an in-ternational agricul-tural honor society.

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SCHOOL BOARD OF MERID-IAN PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Meridian Public School Board of Educa-tion Regular Meeting will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Sun-day, January 20th, 2019, in the conference room of Meridian Public School. The meeting will be open to the public. An agenda for such meetings, kept continuously current, is available for pub-lic inspection at the office of the superintendent. Nebraska Statutory provi-sions relating to open public meetings are posted in the board conference room. Jason Bartels,Secretary 41b

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Public Notice The regular meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners will be held on January 8, 2019 in the commissioner’s room at the courthouse in Fair-bury at 9:00 a.m. Board of Equalization held at 9:05 a.m. each week. An agenda kept continually current is available for public inspec-tion at the County Clerk’s office during normal busi-ness hours or log onto Jefferson County website www.co.jefferson.ne.us/. 41b

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Notice is hereby given that the Fairbury Planning Com-mission will hold a Public Hearing to discuss and make recommendations on the City of Fairbury, Nebras-ka One (1) and Six (6) Year Street Improvement Plan for 2019 - 2024.Said hearing will be con-ducted in the Fairbury City Council chambers, which is located at 612 ‘ D ‘ Street,

Fairbury, NE on Monday, January 14, 2019 at 6:30 p.m., at which time the Commission will review, hear and consider all persons in support of the matter or any objections thereto. Comments may be made in person, by agent, or by cor-respondence; as provided by law.The agenda is continuously kept current and readily available for public inspec-tion in the office of the Plan-ning Commission Secretary.Laura BedlanPlanning Commission Secretary 41b

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Board of EducationMeridian Public Schools

District 48-0303 Daykin, Nebraska 68338Sunday December 16,

2018Regular December 16,

2018 Meeting - 11:00 A.M. Meridian Public School Board of Education met on Sunday, December 16, 2018, as per notice in the Fairbury Journal-News. President VanWesten called the meeting to order at 11:00 a.m. The open meet-ing law information was pre-sented. Roll call was taken: Vorder-strasse-present, Miller-present, Sobotka-present, Bartels-present, Scheer-ab-sent, VanWesten-present. Also present were Super-intendent Kort, Principal Scott, and Natalie Meyer. Sobotka moved and Vorderstrasse seconded to approve member Scheer’s absence. Vote taken: Vorderstrasse-aye, Miller-aye, Sobotka-aye, Bartels-aye, and VanWesten-aye. Motion passed 5-0. Nothing new was added to the agenda. No comments were made from the public. Sobotka moved and Miller seconded to approve con-sent agenda as presented.1. Minutes of the Monday, November 19, 2018 Regular Meeting2. District Financial Report3. Activity Fund Report4. Hot Lunch Report5. BillsVote taken: Vorderstrasse-aye, Miller-aye, Bartels-aye, Sobotka-aye, and VanWest-en-aye. Motion carried 5-0. Principal Scott gave the Curriculum report. Matt McNiff from ESU 5 gave the teachers a SAT Pro-cess update. Annette Weise will be at the January 7th, teacher in service to work on the five-year accredita-tion which is March 18-19, 2019. Sobotka moved and Mill-er seconded to approve Teacher Negotiations for 2019-2020. In-house substitution pay will change to 1/8th of the daily sub-stitute compensation. The end of the teachers’ con-tract date will be May 31st. Jr High Quiz Bowl sponsor will receive 1% of base and ELL was changed to an as-signed extra-duty with 1.5% compensation. Teacher compensation will in-crease $650 which is close to 3.5% increase. Vote taken:Vorderstrasse-aye, Miller-aye, Sobotka-aye, Bartels-aye, and VanWest-en-aye. Motion carried 5-0. Sobotka moved and Bartels seconded to add a non-cer-tified subgroup to the exist-ing Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance policy. The cov-

erage would be for the em-ployee only with an option for the employee to pay the difference for dependents. The school would pay 75% of the employee’s coverage. Vote taken: Vorderstrasse-aye, Miller-aye, Sobotka-aye, Bartels-aye, and Van-Westen-aye. Motion carried 5-0. Vorderstrasse moved and Sobotka seconded to ap-prove Policy 3131 (Activ-ity Fund and Hot Lunch Program protocol for check signatures). Vote taken: Vorderstrasse-aye, Miller-aye, Sobotka-aye, Bartels-aye, and VanWesten-aye. Motion carried 5-0. Superintendent Kort and Principal Scott informed the Board on new services offered by ESU 5 on their web page. There is a Mental Health Services tab where there are links for fam-ily issues, suicide, parent-ing help, etc. available to anyone by going to WWW.ESU5.ORG. Principal Scott gave the Principal’s Report.1. Student Count – 2352. Congratulations to the One Act team for placing well at Conference and Dis-tricts. Also to the cast and crew for all their recogni-tion.3. Congratulations to the wrestling team for winning the Bob Oliver Invite with seven champions.4. Congratulations to Halle Pribyl and Josiee Sobotka for earning First Team All-Conference.5. Congrats Junior High Girls for Winning Dorchester Tourney6. Congrats to 6th Grade Girls’ Team for Winning the Tri County Tourney7. First Semester Ends Fri-day, December 21, 2018 - 1:30 Dismissal8. Social Media - Facebook = 828; Twitter = 211. Superintendent Kort gave the Superintendent’s Re-port.1. Working on 2019-2020 School Calendar2. Meridian Beef Program Update: Beef donated by Larry and Gina Schafer Fam-ily is being processed cur-rently. 3. NCSA/Legislative Up-date: Good visit with Sena-tors elect Myron Dorn and Tom Brandt at ESU4. Update on CRC and Mudecas 5. Ruiz Process to Keep Full Time Status and Earn Citizenship6. Locker Room Procedures Starting After First of Year7. Elementary Student Council Reindeer Run Discussion was held on the Board Evaluation of Superin-tendent Kort. Miller moved and Sobotka seconded to approve a new three-year

contract for Superintendent Kort. Vote taken: Vorder-strasse-aye, Miller-aye, So-botka-aye, Bartels-aye, and VanWesten-aye. Motion carried 5-0. Next regular meeting was set for Sunday, January 20th, 2019, at 11:30 a.m. due to a conflict with the CRC Basketball Tournament on Monday, January 21st. Vorderstrasse moved and Miller seconded to ad-journ at 12:18 p.m. Vote taken:Vorderstrasse-aye, Miller-aye, Sobotka-aye, Bartels-aye, and VanWest-en-aye. Motion carried 5-0.Jason Bartels, Secretary Meridian District # 48-0303 AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE ASSUR CO $434.60 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD $33,835.08 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD $33,835.08 ELECTRONIC FEDERAL TAX PAYMENT$38,847.69 FORT HAYS UNIVERSITY $472.29 HEALTH BENEFIT SOLU-TIONS $437.75 MADISON NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE $716.17 NEBRASKA DE-PARTMENT OF REVENUE $5,529.68 NEBRASKA SCHOOL RETIREMENT SYS $32,281.03 WADDELL & REED $829.00 AMERI-CAN TIME $214.04 AT&T $98.79 Auto Repair Plus $257.61 Sondra Backstrom $60.59 CHARTWELLS DIN-ING SERVICE $126.00 DANA F. COLE & COMPANY, LLP $5,455.00 DAS STATE ACCOUNTING - CENTRAL $229.49 DAYKIN HARD-WARE $461.84 DAYKIN LUMBER COMPANY $249.79DECKER EQUIPMENT $77.95ESU #5 $14,635.12 FARMERS’ COOPERATIVE $4,076.10 FLOOD COM-MUNICATIONS $55.00 MIKE HOFSTETTER $78.20 J W PEPPER & SONS INC. $770.00 JAYMAR BUSINESS FORMS, INC. $100.66 JCH & L FAIRBURY CLINIC $133.00Randall Kort $97.75 KSB SCHOOL LAW $577.00 NE-BRASKA PUBLIC HEALTH ENVIR. $247.00 ARDEN NITZ $141.01 NORRIS PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT $6,182.43 PLUNKETT’S PEST CONTROL $102.44 PROTEX CENTRAL, INC. $742.00 RICOH USA, INC $979.22 RICOH USA, INC $2,057.57 ROME SERVICE INC $608.75 U.S.CELLULAR $124.47 UNITE PRIVATE NETWORKS, LLC $277.00 VARITRONICS $1,489.54 VON BUSCH AND SONS RE-FUSE $165.36 WEAVER RE-PAIR, INC $681.99WELSCH REPAIR $1,822.24 WEST-ERN OIL $496.76 WILLIAMS DRILLING CO. INC. $155.00Bills - $157,410.00Payroll - $123,507.51TOTAL EXPENDITURES - $280,917.51. 41b

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The Little Blue Natural Resources District Board of Directors will meet in regular session on Tues-day, January 8th, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.in the Little Blue NRD Office in Davenport. The Projects and Planning Committee will meet prior to the regular meeting at 7:00. The agenda for the meetings are kept continu-ally current and are available for public inspection during regular office hours at the Little Blue NRD. 41b

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following described property will be sold at pub-lic auction to the highest bidder at the South door of the county courthouse in Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska:Parcel 1:The Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼ SW ¼) of Section Thirty-three (33), Township One (1) North, Range Three (3) East of the 6th P.M. in Jef-ferson County, Nebraska; andParcel 2:The Southwest Quarter (SW ¼); South Half of the Northwest Quarter (S ½ NW ¼); Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW ¼ NE ¼); West Half of the Southeast Quarter (W ½ SE ¼); and the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE ¼ SE ¼), all in Section Thirty-two (32), Township One (1) North, Range Three (3) East of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson Coun-ty, Nebraska; and

Parcel 3:The South Half (S ½) and the South Half of the North-east Quarter (S ½ NE ¼), all in Section Thirty-one (31), Township One (1) North, Range Three (3) East of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson County, Nebraska; and the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE ¼ SE ¼) of Section Thirty-six (36), Township One (1) North, Range Two (2) East of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson County, Nebraska,on Tues-day, February 19, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.Dated December 27, 2018.BENNINGTON STATE BANK, TrusteeBy /s/ Joseph H. MurrayJoseph H. Murray, PC LLO#12994Its AttorneyMURRAY LAW, PC LLO147 North 4th StreetP.O. Box 87Hebron, Nebraska 68370(402) 768-7400 41-45b

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following described property will be sold at pub-lic auction to the highest bidder at the South door of the county courthouse in Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska: The North Half (N ½) of Section Twelve (12), Town-ship Three (3) North, Range Four (4) East of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson County, Nebraska, on Tuesday, Feb-ruary 19, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

Dated December 27, 2018.BENNINGTON STATE BANK, TrusteeBy /s/ Joseph H. MurrayJoseph H. Murray, PC LLO#12994Its AttorneyMURRAY LAW, PC LLO147 North 4th StreetP.O. Box 87Hebron, Nebraska 68370(402) 768-7400 41-45b

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Regular MeetingDecember 4, 2018

The Mayor & Council of the City of Fby met on 12/4/18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Coun-cil Chambers, 612 D St, Fby, NE. Oath of office was administered to Polson, Schmidt, Carmichael, and Rogge. Council Members present: Brown, Carmichael, Bailey, Polson, Rogge, Fries-en, Schmidt, and Davis.Council member Rogge was nominated and unanimously confirmed by the Council to serve as the President of the City Council.Motions approved: 1) Moved to approve the con-sent agenda, minutes of reg mtg of 11/20/18, claims, appointment of John Ebke to the Museum Board, and appointment of Peter Renn to the Planning & Zoning Commission and CDBG Re-use Committee; 2) Moved to approve Mayoral appoint-ment of standing commit-tees; 3) Moved to approve 2019 health insurance re-newal proposal as recom-mended by the Finance & Keno Committee; 4) Moved to reject Ordinance No. 3080.; 5) Moved to adjourn at 7:57 p.m.Claims Approved: Beatrice Concrete $679.88; Bock-mann $155.50; Card Servic-es $351.98; Jeff. Co. Clerk $10,878.74; Davis Home Inspections $2,050.00; Fby Rural Fire $41,000.00; Fby Winnelson $1,269.36; Intermedia.net $105.09; Lottman $10,484.38; NMPP $1,291.00; OA $22,897.93; So. 7 Clerk’s Association $10.00; Uni-First Corp. $169.18; Ve-rizon Wireless $160.04; William Talkington $61.50; Total $91,564.58Public Hearings and Presen-tations: 1) Public Hearing concerning vacating west ½ of L Street located north of the PWF Road and south of the railroad right-of-way. 41b

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Regular Meeting December 11, 2018

The Board of Public Works held its regular meeting De-cember 11, 2018, at the Fairbury City Offices. Pres-ent at the meeting were Jim Wrigley, Glen Tedrow, Wayne Schultis, Jim More-head, Jeff Sweetser, Collin Bielser, and Mayor Homer Ward. Meeting was called to order by Mr. Tedrow. Mr. Tedrow announced pursuant to Sec-tion 84-1412(8) of the Ne-braska Open Meetings Act, a current copy of the Open Meetings Act was posted in the meeting room and made available to the public. The following claims were approved: Chase NYC $47,938.75; Anything Elec-tric $255.00; Jeff. Co. High-way Dept. $1,249.00; Land-mark Implement $60.00; Omaha Slings $99.33; Res-co $10,148.01; Fby L&W $35.30; FJN $262.22; In-terstate Battery $44.08; FR Depot $164.97; Ray’s Ap-ple Market $246.77; WAPA $18,787.45; Hawkins $581.20; Altec $4,197.21; M&D $350.83; U-Line $76.33; Farmer’s CO-OP

$641.36; OA $6,696.15; Landmark $4,500.00; Col-lection Assoc. $539.11; Eakes Office $1,193.96; Dutton-Lainson $6,446.19; Ross Boeckner $8,227.50; Total $112,741.22 Electric Dept. reported 1 OT call due to a faulty fuse. Dept. continues to change-out street lights and cut trees. Dept. set a 70’ pole with the new digger truck. Water Dept. reported 1 OT due to sewer main plug. Wa-ter meter change-outs are 68% complete. Met with OA regarding transmission main project. NeRWA has been contacted to assist the City with flushing and testing fire hydrants in the spring. Mo-tion to approve Lutz, Daily, and Brain’s proposal to con-duct an electrical genera-tion/transmission feasibility study passed unanimously. City continues to finalize industrial wastewater dis-charge permit. Finances and outstanding accounts were presented. There being no further busi-ness the meeting was ad-journed at 9:15 a.m. 41b

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Regular Meeting December 18, 2018

The Board of Public Works held its regular meeting De-cember 18, 2018, at the Fairbury City Offices. Pres-ent at the meeting were Jim Wrigley, Glen Tedrow, Wayne Schultis, Jim More-head, Jeff Sweetser, Collin Bielser, and Mayor Homer Ward. Meeting was called to order Mr. Tedrow. Mr. Tedrow an-nounced pursuant to Sec-tion 84-1412(8) of the Ne-braska Open Meetings Act, a current copy of the Open Meetings Act was posted in the meeting room and made available to the public. The following claims were approved: Gill Insurance $827.00; Ne. Dept. of Rev-

enue $1.17; Moellenberndt Construction $2,515.50; QA Balance $105.00; Roehr’s Machinery $164.71; Fby L&W $640.44; Jeff. Co. $9.50; Eakes $65.95; Landmark $132.33; In-terstate Battery $98.23; Wesco $24,530.01; Mu-nicipal Supply $25,461.22; Withholding Tax $5,323.20; FICA $5,657.34; Ameri-tas $4,998.32; $ H.S.A. Fund $1,139.92; Payroll $25,797.99; Altec $56.33; LaQuinta Inn $253.70; Intermedia $72.17; Key-lin’s Cleaning $150.00; Cornhusker Interna-tional $2,014.22; Total $100,014.25. Mr. Brian Blobaum of Blobaum and Busboom pre-sented and reviewed the

annual Enterprise Fund audit for FY 2018. Electric Dept. reported no OT. Installing electric service at swim-ming pool. Dept. continues to trim trees and change-out streetlights. Water Dept. reported 1 OT due to sewer main plug near hospi-tal. Camera security system at Crystal Springs needs replaced and will cost ap-proximately $3,000. It was reported that a meeting with LBNRD regarding water rates will be scheduled for early January. Finances and outstanding accounts were presented. There being no further busi-ness the meeting was ad-journed at 9:25 a.m. 41b

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DISCRIMINATORY ADVERTISING - 20-318. Unlawful acts enumerated. Except as exempted by section 20-322, it shall be unlawful to: (3) Make, print, publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, handicap, familial status, or sex or any intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

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