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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.
UNO to salute winner of Step Up Award
The 2009 University of Nebraska at Omaha's Step Up Award will be presented to Ron Abdouch, executive director of the Neighborhood Center, at an all-campus ceremony Wednesday.
UNO Chancellor John Christensen will make the presentation at 3 p.m. in the Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom.
This award, created in 2007, honors UNO faculty and staff members who respond above and beyond the scope of their normal responsibilities to support a special project, university initiative or extra assigned duties.
The Neighborhood Center was established in 2001 and is administered by UNO. Abdouch will be honored for expanding outreach of the Neighborhood Center to Council Bluffs.
Heartland Blueprint seeks nominations
Applications are being accepted through Dec. 31 for Heartland Blueprint, a training program geared toward increasing the participation by people of color at the policymaking level of local nonprofit organizations.
United Way of the Midlands' Volunteer and Community Services division sponsors the free training program. It is open to people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in Douglas, Sarpy, Pottawattamie and Mills Counties.
Heartland Blueprint includes a six-hour orientation, and then six three-hour sessions. The next class cycle will begin Feb. 20. To obtain an application or more information, call 522-7930, send a fax to 522-7991, or visit www.uwmidlands.org.
Workshop's topic: ‘How to drive change'
“Making Things Happen: How to Drive Change” will be the focus of a Dec. 9 workshop sponsored by the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands. The session will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the Omaha Home For Boys.
Speaker and consultant Joe Gerstandt will lead the program exploring how change really happens.
Contact Tina L. Gray by e-mail at tina@nonprofitam.org to register. Cost is $29 for members, $59 for nonmembers.
Fiddle compositions sought
Entries are now being accepted for the annual Nebraska American String Teachers Association Fiddle Tune Contest.
The contest is intended to inspire fiddlers to compose their own tunes and support the cause of string education in Nebraska.
The winners will be announced May 29 during the Monumental Fiddling Championship, held at the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Neb. A $100 first-place prize, along with $50 for second and $35 for third, will be awarded. And the winning compositions will be performed at the fiddling event as well as printed in Stringing Along, the journal of the Nebraska Chapter of the American String Teachers Association.
For information about rules or to submit an entry, contact Deborah Greenblatt, c/o The Old Schoolhouse, PO Box 671, Avoca, Neb. 68307-0671, or by e-mail at: debby@greenblattandseay.com.
Highway group taps roads speaker
Kris Winter of the Nebraska Roads Department will be the speaker at a Highway 14 Association Inc. monthly luncheon meeting Thursday.
It will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Petersburg (Neb.) American Legion.
Members and guests are asked to RSVP by Tuesday to Julie Dickerson at julied@frontiernet.net or by calling her at 402-395-2115.
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