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Thought for the week: A good supervisor is one who can step on your toes and not mess up your shine. The same three words is what I heard from people when I called them this week...snow, wind and cold.

Another snowy week. Carol Woods measured 11 inches on the level on Wednesday and then at 10:00 p.m. some more snowing and blowing. The snow keeps drifting on the front step and can hardly open the screen door. It is moisture but it gets tiring to keep shoveling off steps and walk, and trying to walk through it. We pray for the farmers and ranchers and others that must battle it continuously. The roads have huge piles lining the roadside but we have had two good days of melting.

Chadron State College has announced the names of students who qualified for the institution’s Fall 2022 academic honors lists. The President’s List consists of 225 students with a 4.0 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

Read Across America Week is March 2nd - 6th, with Ainsworth Public Library celebrating Tuesday, February 28th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This yearly observance serves as a reading motivation and awareness program for children of all ages.

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.

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The Ainsworth FFA Chapter celebrates National FFA Week, February 18-25, 2023. This National FFA Week embraces more than 95 years of FFA traditions while looking forward to the organization’s future.

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Winter Storm Diaz, the massive blizzard that moved across Nebraska in December 2022, now has claimed less visible victims — countless fish in at least 20 Sandhills and Panhandle lakes. Low oxygen levels have been recorded in many of the regions’ shallow, highly vegetated lakes, said Al Hanson, fisheries supervisor for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s northwestern district.

I introduced two bills this session that I think address the two most important rights Americans have. These rights are protected by the first and second amendments of the Federal Constitution, and article one, sections one and four of the Nebraska Constitution.