WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) announced today her staff will hold local office hours for constituents in Furnas and Red Willow Counties on Thursday, March 30, 2023. These office hours serve as a convenient opportunity for constituents to speak in person directly with Senator Fischer’s staff to receive help with casework and other issues at the federal level.

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CAMBRIDGE - The latest honorees of Cambridge alumni were the first from the field of agriculture. Ed and Marilyn Kester received the Distinguished Alumni recognition at a school assembly Friday, receiving their award, then speaking briefly to the school in the auditorium before deferring to their son, Ken, to finish the address.

OXFORD - The Village of Oxford Board of Trustees approved gifting a Village owned lot to the Oxford Community Food Pantry during their meeting on Monday, March 13, 2023. The resolution to give the lot to the pantry was approved after a public hearing for a variance permit for the property. The planning and zoning commission had a meeting and recommended the zoning variance which the Village Board approved. The lot for the new food pantry site is in R-1 zoning and the building will be used for nonresidential. The building that will go on the lot is a 16 x 50 foot pre-fabricated building. Pantry board members asked the Village if there were any stipulations. There was some discussion on footings and it was thought it would be a good idea to have them.

The Elwood American Legion Post #290 and American Legion Auxiliary Unit #290 held their annual Birthday Banquet at the American Legion home in Elwood NE on Monday, March 6. Six veterans were recognized and honored for their service to our Nation with quilts from Prairie Quilt Guild members Marty Kleppinger and Kathy Beck of Elwood and Alice Erickson and Janet Kugler of Holdrege. Prairie Quilt Guild of Holdrege is a Chapter of the Quilts of Honor organization, which provided the quilts for the event. PQG members Marty Kleppinger and Kathy Beck made the quilts for the six veterans. Chapter Coordinators Alice Erickson and Janet Kugler also assisted with the presentations. The five veterans on hand for the presentation included Allen Schmeeckle, Dick Tobler, JB Houlden, Glenn Hofman and Keith Withers A sixth veteran, unable to attend the event, but honored with a patriotic quilt was R. Joe Marrs, Marine of Las Vegas NV.

After 40 years as a doctor interacting with patients, in the last two and a half years the tables turned, and I’ve become the patient. Although most are good, I’ve found some doctors are detached, some are too quick, some would rather be somewhere else, some are even angry; but, when a physician who cares walks into the room, and I’m not exaggerating, the day becomes better, the pain becomes less, and hope fills my heart. Scientific knowledge is important, but the ability to convey honest concern, human thoughtfulness and compassion is equal in importance in this healing profession. So, how do we select premed students for that, or teach compassion in medical school?

They say curiosity killed the cat, but for me, I’m not so sure. With family in southeast Nebraska, boards that I serve on and activities that I cover almost constantly in Lincoln in Omaha, I spend a lot of time driving down I80 between York and Lincoln as well as Highway 81 from York down to Bruning. For all those trips - I’ve probably driven on these roads no less than 20 times in the past year - it’s unfashionable how often I witness a truly strange sight.

My colleagues and I on the Senate Agriculture Committee have already begun working on the 2023 Farm Bill, a package of critical agriculture legislation passed only once every five years. Those of us on the Agriculture Committee often agree on many aspects of the Farm Bill, and one of the most popular solutions we hope to implement this year is an increase in the accessibility of precision agriculture technologies.