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The Valentine Methodist Church will be hosting their annual Ice Cream Social Wednesday, August 23, in the fellowship hall from 6:00-8:00 p.m. They will be serving Sloppy Joes, chips, homemade pies and homemade ice cream. A free will donation will be accepted. The praise band will be set up outside for your listening enjoyment on the south entrance. Everyone is welcome!

Pastor Will and Amber Deeds and their family will be at the Valentine Methodist Church August 20 for the 10:30 a.m. service. They were former pastors here, in Valentine, and are now in ministry missions in Guatemala. There will be a potluck meal at 11:45 a.m., following the service and everyone is welcome to attend the service and the meal or feel free to just come to the meal and visit with the Deeds family.

Nebraska wildlife officials say conditions in certain areas of the state are suitable for the spread of deadly viral diseases among big game populations. They are asking the public to report unexplained death or illnesses of deer, pronghorn, elk and bighorn sheep.

Many of you may remember the era when every town had a “locker plant” where the local beef and swine producers took their animals for processing. Families rented frozen storage lockers to preserve their annual meat supply, and these plants supplied the local grocery markets or had a butcher shop.

OMAHA – Students across the Midwest are returning to school and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division is reminding families to make time for honest discussions about the dangers associated with the experimentation and use of drugs.

Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. How bad is the spike? For the week ending July 29, COVID-19 hospital admissions were at 9,056.

Extreme heat, drought, torrential rains, and hungry critters may be wreaking havoc on your garden. After weeding, watering, and waiting you may be finding less, diseased, or misshapen tomatoes. Don’t give up. Make a few adjustments in garden maintenance to boost the current and future tomato harvests.

The rigors of academia demand every student's utmost devotion. For some, the challenges in the classroom are accompanied by the thrill of competition on the playing fields. Multi-tasking may be most associated with modern professionals, but many might have learned how to balance multiple responsibilities at once during their days as studentathletes.

Three times the use - residents use three times more water in summer than winter, and it goes to outdoor watering. Instead, use what nature provides by directing downspouts to plant beds, storing runoff in rain barrels or cisterns for later use, and landscaping with native and regional plants. Rein in water use by maintaining irrigation systems, employing moisture sensors, and watering early in the morning. Summer yards don’t have to use three times the amount of water with water-wise landscapes and irrigation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) co-sponsored fellow Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer’s (R-NE) bill to eliminate the reporting requirement for emissions from animal waste. Biden’s EPA rescinded the 2019 Emergency Planning and Community Rightto- Know-Act (EPCRA) which exempted reporting of air emissions from animal waste. The bill would clarify EPCRA is not intended to regulate manure emissions, which pose no threat to public safety. It would also ensure that emergency first responders are not inundated with unnecessary reporting.