Runza® Restaurants donated $2,352 to United Way of Western Nebraska from sales of the November 7th Runza Day for United Way. The dollars raised will help fund non-profit agencies and programs serving local families in the areas of youth opportunity, healthy community, community resiliency and financial security, as well as support United Way community impact initiatives focusing on food insecurity, homeless prevention, providing basic needs for families in need and fighting poverty in the communities they serve.
Nebraska
Small actions can lead to bigger actions in climate change fight
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Checking out Nebraska’s location in the battle versus environment modification.
6 In Your Corner with just how each Nebraskan can assist as the U.N. records initiatives to avoid calamity.
UNIQUE RECORD: Recently the United Country’s Intergovernmental Panel on Environment Adjustment launched a record composed by thousands of leading researchers revealing it is “currently or never ever” for around the world activity to avoid environment calamity.
Difficulties from environment modification are likewise dealt with in the Heartland.
6 Information is reporting a collection of tales today leading up to Planet Day on Friday, April 22. Look for even more records today on WOWT and also WOWT.com.
It can appear complicated, the suggestion of keeping sustainability in Nebraska when faced with extraordinary international warming. Yet a number of those we spoke to for the 6 Information Planet Week collection, concurred, all of us require to simply take a deep breath and also do something.
Don Preister is the leading pressure behind Eco-friendly Bellevue and also he battles environment modification by doing points he’s constantly done. He hangs his garments level to completely dry, expands a healthy and balanced yard, plants durable, drought-resistant lawn, and also records a lot more power with his solar batteries than he utilizes.
He thinks everything individuals can do issues.
“We can all do those points,” Preister stated. “In regards to carbon, the researchers inform us that we require to remain listed below 350 components per million in the environment and also we’re currently at 450 and also climbing up. So we’re at the precipice of that high cliff, going off. All of us require to take a look at our very own way of life and also locate means to have an effect.”
One means Eco-friendly Bellevue has had an effect is with the easy act of growing trees. In 12 years, they’ve grown greater than 1,100 trees. Omaha has a concentrate on growing trees, as well, as component of a total concentrate on sustainability in their parks.
“We have strategies in position to replant trees, thousands of trees, to stay up to date with simply what we require to do in parks and also our component,” stated Matt Kalcevich, Omaha’s Supervisor of Parks, Leisure and also Public Residential Property. “To endure those points we’re checking out points like stormwater overflow, we’re checking out lasting techniques in regards to administration of our grass surface areas and also points like that.”
“In some cases individuals shed hope however little activities bring about larger activities which causes habits modification,” stated Nebraska state climatologist Martha Shulski. “So I definitely really feel, and also I don’t have a selection however to stay favorable, is that we will certainly interact to fix this.”
Planet Day is Friday, April 22, and also Omaha’s biggest party of the week is held Saturday at Elmwood Park.
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Nebraska
The Nebraska Football Show: Pinstripe Bowl Preview
Nebraska closes out the 2024 season on Saturday, Dec. 28 in the Pinstripe Bowl against Boston College.
Inside Nebraska’s Tim Verghese and Steve Marik break down the new-look Huskers, with slight changes at nearly every position due to transfer portal departures, injuries and opt outs. The two discuss a handful of underclassmen that could be in line for bigger roles on Saturday and a few other players they’re intrigued to see in action.
To close, the two share their keys to victory for Nebraska, what to expect out of Boston College and what a win would ultimately mean for the program
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Nebraska
PHOTOS: Crews put out mobile home fire in central Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Multiple agencies responded to a burning mobile home early Monday morning in central Nebraska.
The fire broke out about 5:40 a.m. south of St. Paul, according to the St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department. St. Paul is about 20 miles north of Grand Island.
The mobile home was abandoned, the fire department said, but the fire spread into the yard.
Dannebrog Fire & Rescue, Boelus Fire & Rescue, the Farwell Volunteer Fire Department, Elba Fire & Rescue and the St. Libory Volunteer Fire Department helped extinguish the blaze.
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