By Erin Laborie, Livestock Systems Educator Nebraska Extension and Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) will be offering BQA and BQA Transportation (BQAT) certification opportunities in February for producers needing certification/ recertification. Many commercial beef packing facilities require producers who sell fed cattle to them to be BQA certified and those who deliver cattle to their facilities to be BQAT certified.

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Southeast Community College in Nebraska has released its Dean’s List for the term completed in December 2023 on the Beatrice, Lincoln and Milford campuses. To be recognized on SCC’s Dean’s List, a student must complete at least six semester credit hours of the term with a minimum grade-point average of 3.5.

The Lincoln County Historical Museum was given the entire Brown-Harano Photo Studio’s archive of photographs. The studio was located in North Platte, Nebraska. The collection ranges from the 1930’s to 2017 and encompasses thousands of photographs. The museum has removed any historical photos for our archives and per the request of the last owner of Brown-Harano Photo Studio we are using the rest as a fundraiser. Anyone who might have had pictures taken at the studio can go to the museum’s website, lincolncountymuseum.org, and click on the Brown-Harano link to look at the database of names to find themselves or relatives. If they find photos they would like to have they can call the museum or email the museum to request the photos. As it is considered a fundraiser we would be grateful if a donation was made.

Bruce E. Wimmer, CPP, has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

MCCOOK - With a pair of one-loss clubs meeting in the RPAC Girls final for the second-consecutive year, there was plenty of familiarity going in. But after a first-quarter tie, Southern Valley took control in the middle quarters, running away from Maywood-Hayes Center to claim a 50-34 victory and the Eagles’ secondstraight RPAC Title.

CAMBRIDGE - Cambridge Public Schools held a pair of school board planning workshops around the holidays to discuss facility needs. While the planning sessions also included academic and staffing needs, facilities are a large priority.

Jeff and Julie Sherwood don’t need anything more to do. They are plenty busy already with the Oxford Supermarket and their other work. But they felt that there was a need in Oxford and the surrounding area to be filled. So, they purchased the former Kuch’s restaurant and opened it as Woody’s Grill and Chill on November 11 th . He had looked at the restaurant several time since it closed several years ago.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved grant awards for the Land and Water Conservation Fund Stateside Assistance Program and the Recreational Trails Program. Commissioners approved the following recreational trail project for federal funding through the Recreational Trails Program (RTP): Curtis, $250,000 to refurbish approximately 1.2 miles of the Curtis Walking Trail by replacing deteriorating asphalt with an 8-foot-wide concrete loop trail near the golf course.

CAMBRIDGE - Ethanol is a renewable fuel that, according to the Department of Energy, is used in more than ninety-eight percent of gasoline in the United States. Cambridge’s Nebraska Corn Processing ethanol plant contributes to that number.