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LINCOLN – U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) traveled to the Rio Grande Valley this week as part of a Senate delegation trip to survey the current state of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Valentine – Funding the Future, in partnership with Carter Hulsey, will visit Valentine High School on Wednesday, March 8, at 9:00 a.m. to share with students the importance of financial literacy. Students from Keya Paha County High School will also be attending the show.

Our final installment of the Valentine Police Deparment’s annual report will include the officers who are patrolling our streets, along with Administrative Assistant Bobbi Johnson who helps to keep the department evidence.

Thedford Volunteer Rescue Squad is proud to announce the installation of a Stryker Power Load system in one of the department’s ambulances. Of the two ambulance’s they have, one is already equipped with a powerload and has proven to be a great asset.

Valentine Police Chief Dana Miller said, “We’ve joined a long list of SWAT team calls across the state.” She’s referring to the active shooter hoax that took place Thursday, March 2, 2023 at Valentine High School and said, “The call came in about 9:22 a.m., I was on an ambulance call before that...My understanding was it was someone pretending to be a male student - it could have been anybody; the male was reporting a shooting at the high school.” Valentine Community School’s Superintendent Mike Halley said, “On March 2, 2023, at approximately 9:30 a.m., the Valentine Police Department was contacted with a report of an active shooter at Valentine High School. Chief Miller contacted VHS and the Standard Response Protocol was activated.

Located at 904 E. Highway 20, in Valentine, BB Snips is ready to design your new look! Brittney Ohlmann is a Cosmetologist who graduated from Steward’s School in Sioux Falls, SD. She is licensed for hair in Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and South Dakota and has been in the profession for the past 10 years.

Daily breakfast: Cereal choices w/Goldfish grahams, Smucker’s peanut butter and jelly Uncrustable, frosted Pop Tarts, banana chocolate chunk BeneFIT bar, fruit, juice and milk choices. March 6-10 breakfast entrees: Monday- Bacon and egg breakfast pizza, Tuesday- Chocolate iced long john, Wednesday- Biscuits and gravy, Thursday- No School, Friday- No School.

The Valentine Ministerial Association will be hosting Sermons-ala- Carte this year at the Episcopal Church, 372 N. Main St.

CSC announces Dean’s List Chadron State College has announced the names of 341 students who qualified for the institution’s Fall 2022 Dean’s List by earning at least a 3.5 grade point average. To qualify, students must be enrolled in 12 credit hours of coursework, be seeking their first bachelor’s degree, and have no incomplete grades during the semester.

by the late Richard P. Holm, MD One summer during my college years, another premed student and I got a job at the Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis, as nurses’ aides. At that time, the guys were called orderlies, but we were part of the nursing department. We were taught how to clean patients’ private parts without making the patient feel self-conscious, and how to place urinary catheters mostly in old men with prostates that had overgrown and were blocking urinary flow.