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As we approach the 2023-2024 winter season, the Activities Department is buzzing with excitement for the upcoming events that promise to make this school year memorable. The calendar is filled with activities, some of which are undergoing significant transformations.

Did you know that Nebraska and 40 other states filed multiple lawsuits against the parent company of Facebook and Instagram? The cartoon to the right of this touches base on that with some appreciated humor to what I consider to be an extremely serious situation.

The Power of Money If you want to get a teenager’s attention, ask him if he would like to become a millionaire by the time he’s 65. Tell him it will take a relatively minimal investment and absolutely no effort after he reaches the age of 21.

Last Saturday was a beautiful day for a Veterans Day parade and we at the chamber are grateful we were able to assist our local American Legion Post in celebrating both past and present veterans.

One question that I often hear this time of year is people wanting to know what I am doing with my time now that we have a break from covering sports. My general answer is, all the things I put off during the fall sports season.

Editor: In the stories of our live lives are written moment by moment in how we live the today activies. There are many ways we share our lives with those we touch.

A salute to veterans Camaraderie—the rapport and comradeship that unites a group of people—is found wherever people gather. It’s evident on sports teams, in church groups, within school classes and it unites members of a family.

I sit here right now in our office gazing out the window with the sun still shining late in the day on Halloween. Soon night will fall, but come next week it will have already fallen at this very time.

If you walked into the research lab at Central City High School this week the odds are you would see a student hard at work on their scientific research.

Open borders and our changing culture America is often called a “nation of immigrants” and with good reason. The ancestors of the vast majority of the nation’s citizens came here from somewhere else.