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Day of Caring 2024 Recap

You helped us provide more than 5,000 care kits to students in our community!

We would like to extend a special “THANK YOU” to YOU for making our Shine Bright – Care Kits for Kids event a huge success! August 7-11, the MidAmerica Center was filled with excitement, joy, smiles, great energy and a lot of heart.

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GETConf: a Recap

Last Friday, over one hundred people attended the Gender Equity in Technology Conference, or GETConf, at Metropolitan Community College’s Center for Advanced and Emerging Technology (CAET). The event sought to celebrate and amplify the voices of women and gender-expansive individuals

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All in all, wildlife weathered blizzard and flood

Article published by Omaha-World Herald Nebraska’s wildlife seems to have fared well overall in the wake of March’s blizzard and catastrophic flooding, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. The full impact of the blizzard and flood won’t be

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