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The Brownville Concert Series will kick off two weekends of Christmas in Brownville with a “Winter Wonderland” harp concert featuring Julie Smith Phillips, Principal Harpist for the San Diego Symphony, with a program of classical treasures and holiday favorites, including music by Handel, Britten and Rameau. The concert on December 2nd begins at 7:00pm and is open to the public, no tickets required, free will donations accepted. The donations will go toward student scholarships for the 2023 Nebraska Harp Workshop and the Brownville Concert Series annual fund drive complementing their mission of student and community outreach.

Peru Theatre Company wraps up the Fall 2022 season with Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley. The film is directed by a senior student, Austin Martin (Falls City). It features a cast of fifteen new and returning Peru Theatre Company members. Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (or N3RD as we call it) is a dark comedy that is set in Suburbia, the world of an online horror video game. Relationships between parents and their children break down with increases in teens’ addiction to the game. As the rules of the game, reality, and virtual lines blur, we are compelled to question our own relationships and ask: “Who do I think you are?”

Heartland Workers Center’s Health & Safety Training Institute (HSTI) offers the region’s only bilingual workplace safety training authorized by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Additionally, HSTI is the only health and safety training program in the area that conducts the training sessions at the employers’ workplaces during employees’ working hours or at Heartland Workers Center’s training facility.

A lucky player who bought a 2by2 ticket for the Wednesday, November 16 drawing is holding a ticket worth $22,000. The Nebraska Lottery has confirmed that one ticket sold for Wednesday’s 2by2 draw matched all four winning numbers for the $22,000 top prize.

The long wait is almost over. For an expected 100,000 deer hunters, the shotgun deer seasons are right around the corner and before they head to the timber, it’s important that everyone go through their gear to make sure everything still fits and still works and takes time to review their hunting safety plan.

The Iowa DNR will beworking with hunters again this shotgun season to collect deer tissue samples to test for chronic wasting disease. So far this fall, one hunter harvested deer from Wayne County has been confirmed positive for the always fatal disease.

Hunters donated 4,183 deer hides to Elks Lodges across Iowa last year, which was a slight increase from the 2021-22 season. The deer hides are used by the Veterans Leather Program to make professionally crafted leather gloves for veterans in wheelchairs and also turned into leather used for therapy programs for recovering veterans.