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Jerry Clausen (Left) .

Board members of the Ainsworth Child Development Center (ACDC) hosted a parent/community info session on Thursday, October 26th to bring those in attendance up to date as the Center gets closer to opening its doors in January, 2024.

Emergency personnel responded to a car/truck accident on October 22nd two miles west of Ainsworth on Highway 20. The Brown County Sheriff’s Department reported a 41-year-old male driver of a 1994 Ford Mustang was south bound on 429th Avenue and failed to stop at the intersection of 429th Avenue and Highway 20.

October 22 - 28, 2023 October 22nd The Brown County Sheriff’s Department, Brown County Ambulance Association and Brown County Rural Fire Department responded to an accident 1 and ½ miles west of Ainsworth. One individual was transported to the Brown County Hospital.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will accept lottery applications for mountain lion permits November 6th – December 13, 2023, for the 2024 hunting season. Permits are available only to Nebraska residents, who may have one permit per calendar year.

Phragmites, a non-native, invasive, noxious plant, is spreading rapidly along rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands throughout the state. Officials at Nebraska Game and Parks are asking waterfowl hunters to help keep from making the problem worse.

Brown County has received another membership dividend, this time in the amount of $4,177.00, from the Nebraska Intergovernmental Risk Management Association II (NIRMA II), the county’s workers’ compensation coverage and risk management services provider.

A common lament I hear from my patients as they try to discuss a real concern they have about their body: “I’m sorry; this is so disgusting!” Their cheeks burn with shame as they tell me how their bowels have betrayed them. No matter what the issue is, so many of my patients are mortified discussing their diarrhea, constipation, fecal incontinence. My response, always, is “you can’t gross me out – we talk about poop every day in this clinic!”

Question: When do I dig my horseradish? Horseradish is a very cold hardy perennial in the mustard family. It has a fleshy tap root that can grow to ten feet deep and if left unattended it will grow into a mass of secondary roots and rootlet.