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Help find next Mother of the Year
The Nebraska Mothers Association is searching for that special woman to become the 2010 Nebraska Mother of the Year.
A group or a person unrelated to the candidate must make the nomination.
Requirements include that she be at least 45, married to a man in a legal ceremony and the mother of at least one child, adopted or biological. The woman’s youngest child must be at least 15.
The completed portfolio must be submitted by Jan. 15. For more information, contact search chairwoman Jeanie Barry at 206 S. Eighth St., Battle Creek, NE 68715, or by phone at 402-675-5191.
UNO to observe World AIDS Day
University of Nebraska at Omaha students and community agency members will hold a candlelight vigil at 5 p.m. Tuesday to recognize World AIDS Day and to remember those who have died from AIDS.
The vigil will be on the south side of Dodge Street near the campus. The event will cap a series of events sponsored that day by UNO, Omaha Public Schools and community organizations.
UNO events that day in the Milo Bail Student Center will include:
• An education fair sponsored by the Douglas County Health Department, UNO, Nebraska AIDS Project and more.
• Presentations by Omaha Public Schools magnet school students.
• HIV/AIDS and STD testing.
• A panel discussion at 3 p.m. in the Nebraska Room, featuring patients from the University of Nebraska Medical Center who are living with HIV and AIDS.
The magnet schools students collected 28 boxes of school supplies to send to UNO international student Andie Hansen. She will distribute the supplies to underprivileged students in South Africa, where she is carrying out a service learning project through Stellenbosch University.
New hours starting at nature center
The Hitchcock Nature Center in Honey Creek, Iowa, will switch to new seasonal hours effective Tuesday at the Loess Hills Lodge.
Lodge hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays through February.
Pick your own topic for this discussion
A verbal free-for-all will be on tap at the Brownville Lyceum Forum at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Those attending will be invited to write a discussion topic on a slip of paper. The slips will be drawn from a hat and topics hashed out in free-ranging discussion at the Brownville Lyceum in the southeast Nebraska community.
— Compiled by Sue Story Truax
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