Phone 824-9177 Monday – closed Tuesday – 1 pm - 5 pm Wednesday – 1 pm - 5 pm Thursday – 1 pm - 5 pm Friday – 1 pm - 5 pm Saturday – 10 am - 3 pm.

Available Tuesday and Thursday by appointment only. An equal opportunity provider Contact phone numbers include 991-1064, 991-7331, 655-1922, 991-6911, 999-9418.

Tri Valley Health System is expanding services, providing local, around-the- clock treatment for stroke patients through telemedicine. Telestroke/Acute Neurology services will be available for patients starting Monday, August 8. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a stroke hits someone in the United States every 40 seconds, and early action is critical. Patients who receive appropriate care with (Continued to Page 6) in three hours have a greater survival rate. They also suffer from less disability – such as loss of mobility – three months after the stroke than those who received delayed care.

ELWOOD – Ryan Jones officially began his new job on July 25 and says that he is looking forward to serving as Elwood’s K-12 Principal. He spent 19 years as a 7-12 History teacher and the past seven years as the Activities Director of the Maxwell School District.

TeamMates Mentoring co-founder Tom Osborne and TeamMates CEO DeMoine Adams gratefully accepted a most generous donation from the Jim and Sharri Baldonado Family, The Home Agency, and BHA Real Estate on Monday, August 8, 2022, in Lexington, Nebraska. The three-year commitment to TeamMates Mentoring was given to support 128 rural and non-Lincoln and non-Omaha metro Nebraska TeamMates Chapters, which includes more than 5,000 TeamMates mentees, grades 3-12. The donation will cover a major portion of each Chapter’s operating expenses such as participation fees (vary per school), annual match support ($450) and background checks ($30, required for every mentor at each chapter).

Josh Lanik will start the 2022-2023 school year as the 7 – 12 principal at Southern Valley. Lanik will be living in Orleans with his wife Stephanie and two boys Max and Miles. Max will be a sixth grader and Miles in fourth. Both will be attending Southern Valley.

When Benjamin Ellis officially began his new position as the Arapahoe-Holbrook School District Elementary Principal on August 1, he felt right at home. Both Ellis and his wife, Gina, grew up in Arapahoe, graduating in 1986 and 1989 respectively.

SCHOOL HOURS School begins at 8:00 a.m. on regular school days and dismisses at 3:30 p.m.

The Cambridge Public Schools will offer a school breakfast and school lunch program. The first day for breakfast service will beWednesday, August 10, and the first day for lunches will be Wednesday, August 10.

Public Law 94-142 and Rules 51 and 54 mandate that a free and appropriate public education be available for each handicapped child, ages 0-21. Handicapped children are those defined as handicapped physically, visually, speech, orthopedically, mentally, specific learning disabled, behaviorally, multi-handicappped, home or hospital bound and whose handicap requires special services or education. If you know of any child in our district who meets any of the listed criteria and is not presently being served, please contact Mr.Greg Shepard, Superintendent, 697-3322.