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Nebraska Extension prepares kids, teens for babysitting jobs
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Over the summer months, many kids are looking for ways to fill their time, and add a little money to their pockets. One popular way to do that is babysitting. After a clinic on Monday, more than two dozen kids in Lincoln and Lancaster County are now better prepared to do the job.
The Building Better Babysitters clinic was hosted by the Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County to teach kids between the ages of 10 to 15 what they need to know to be successful. Participants learned crucial skills like CPR, how to change a diaper and how to create a babysitting kit.
“I have babysat a few times,” said Lucy Pflanz, a babysitting trainee at the clinic. “And I hope that I hope that this class would help improve my skills.”
Pflanz said she aspires to start her own babysitting business, and clinics like this help to better prepare her for any situation that might arise.
“It was nice learning how to like, deal with like a temper tantrum and that kind of stuff,” Pflanz said. “Because I know some kids who can get really big blowouts.”
For others, it’s not their first time attending the clinic. For Josie Branch, it’s about following her passion.
“I’ve told my mom so many times, when I grew up, I want to be, like, I want to teach people how to like babysit,” Branch said.
Hayley Jackson Perez, who taught Monday’s clinic, said with babysitting being a popular summer job, teaching youth how to babysit, and how to keep kids safe is important.
“What we’re seeing is that more adolescents are babysitting, and that more families are utilizing them,” Jackson Perez said. “And so again, we’re just trying to give the adolescent skills, and then really kind of looking at babysitting as a business.”
When those skills are utilized outside of the classroom and continue to grow, Jackson Perez said it can lead to long lasting impacts.
“To give children the opportunity to work with young children to say, this might be an experience that I want to have, especially when we think about the teaching shortage and education,” Perez said. “If we could get more people interested in teaching and working with young learners, it’s going to benefit our entire community.”
Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County will hold it’s next Building Better Babysitters clinic on July 30.
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(WOWT) – On this day in 1917, Nebraska law officially prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the state.
Voters approved an amendment to the state’s constitution.
A picture from the Nebraska Historical Society is from that first day.
A Dakota County newspaper reported that bootlegging spiked after the law passed.
Raiding squads going after violators even targeted bathrooms.
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — which banned liquor nationwide — was ratified in 1919.
National prohibition was repealed with the 21st amendment in 1933.
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The Nebraska softball team (40-6, 20-1) will hit the road and face the Penn State Nittany Lions (32-17, 11-10) this week to wrap up the final regular-season series of the season. The Huskers are ranked No. 3 in the NFCA Poll. NU is also No. 2 by Softball America, USA Softball and D1 Softball.
The Huskers are led by two-way star Jordy Frahm and Hannah Camenzind. Frahm is hitting .423 at the plate on the season with a 15-4 record with nine saves in the pitcher’s circle. Camenzind is hitting .408 and has a record in the pitcher’s circle of 5-0 with a 1.40 ERA.
The Big Ten Tournament will take place May 6-9 in College Park, MD.
Here’s how to watch the Nebraska-Penn State doubleheaders today, including time, TV schedule, and streaming information:
What channel is Nebraska-Penn State on today?
TV Channel: Game one: N/A Game two: BTN
Livestream: Game one: B1G+ Game two: Fubo (free trial)
Nebraska vs Penn State will wrap up the final regular-season series of the year on the Big Ten Network on Saturday afternoon. Streaming options for the game include B1G+ and FUBO, which offers a free trial to new subscribers.
Nebraska-Penn State Softball time today
- Date: Saturday, May 2 (doubleheaders)
- Start time: 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. CT
The Nebraska-Penn State softball doubleheader starts at 10 a.m. CT and 1:30 p.m. CT from Nittany Lion Softball Park in State College, PA.
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ASHLAND, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) – Online trolls had a field day in March when Nebraskans got wind that a stiff breeze had taken a political sign that named a red barn along Interstate 80 in eastern Nebraska.
Much of the social media discourse centered on a combination of higher gas prices, tariffs, war, political fatigue and polling headwinds during the second term for President Donald Trump.
The barn’s owner, farmer Alan Volger, told the Nebraska Examiner at the time he probably couldn’t afford another red-letter “TRUMP” sign, nor could he physically put a new sign up.
“I gotta have somebody else put signs up,” he said. “I don’t care how high it goes, I gotta keep one foot on the ground.”
Volger said the timing seemed OK since the president is term-limited and cannot run again. He still had his signs up supporting property tax reform and opposing abortion.
But this week, Dr. Pat Castle of LIFE Runners, an anti-abortion group from Lincoln, and a friend of Castle’s who owns a lift, posted a new “TRUMP” sign on the “Trump Barn.”
They had funding help from a supporter of Nebraska Secretary of State candidate Scott Petersen, who paid for the sign and let his preferred candidate for Nebraska’s top election official take the credit.
Petersen and fellow Republican Secretary of State Bob Evnen have been in a pitched primary race over the future of counting votes in Nebraska elections. Both have expressed support for Trump.
So this week a different set of online trolls had a good day, punching back against the Nebraskans who had said they were ready to see something else driving from Omaha to Lincoln.
One said, “He made his barn great again.”
Critics also clapped back. One said, “Surprised they could afford to drive it there with the price of diesel.”
Volger, on Friday, said he had heard from a number of people who wanted the sign back up, and he said a bunch of people driving on I-80 when it went back up on Wednesday honked at them.
He said even the Nebraska State Patrol has used his barn as a landmark, recalling a lost man he saw wandering on his property that troopers said the barn helped them locate.
His goal for this year is to get the barn repainted so it looks a little nicer in the pictures people share online. He said his painter agreed to take the signs down and put them back up.
“I’m sure not doing it,” Volger said, laughing.
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