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PHASE 1 Yesterday, at his daily coronavirus briefing, Governor Pete Ricketts an-nounced that new directed health measures (DHMs) will take effect on June 1, 2020. “Phase I” reopening DHMs will apply to the Central District Health Department (Hall, Hamilton, and Merrick counties) and Dakota County. “Phase II” reopening DHMs, which are less restrictive, will apply to the rest of Nebraska. Effective June 1 in 89 counties, including the Omaha area, bars and lounges can reopen under the same rules that now apply to restaurants no more than 50% capacity, with patrons at tables spaced out by at least 6

feet and no one sitting at the bar. Ricketts also announced that public gather-ings in those counties can increase from the current limit of 10 to 25 as of June 1. For stadiums, outdoor and indoor arenas, theaters, festivals, zoos and other large venues, the limit was raised to 25 people or 25% of a venue’s rated occupancy (not to exceed 3,000), whichever is greater. Groups inside those venues would be limited to six people, with 6 feet between groups. That includes wedding and funeral receptions. Steve Martin, Executive Direc-tor of the Alliance for the Future of Agriculture in Nebraska (AFAN), joined the Governor this afternoon. He talked about AFAN’s new grant program to provide food pantries with freezers and refrigerators. The Nebraska De-partment of Agriculture, an AFAN member, played a key role in developing the program. AFAN’s cold storage grants will give food pantries greater ability to provide perishable items, like milk or meat, to customers.

MCCOOK AREA EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD The McCook Area Chamber of Commerce would like to announce that due to COVID-19, the nomination period for the annual McCook Area Educator of the Year Award has been reopened until June 12. The award is made possi-ble by the Strunk Family who are founders and former publishers of the McCook Daily Gazette. Nominations must be submitted online at EoY-award.mccook.org. All active teachers, administrators, counselors, and coaches in Dundy, Chase, Hitchcock, Hayes, Red Willow, Frontier, and Furnas counties in Nebraska and Decatur, Cheyenne and Rawlins counties in Kansas in both public and religious schools offering K-12 or parts thereof including Mid Plains Community College-McCook. Once nominated, the nominee is given the opportunity to apply for the award which will be scored and tal-lied by the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce. The deadline for nomina-tions is June 12 at 5:00 p.m. CST.

2020 MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE The live stream for Nebraska’s 2020 Memorial Day Observance will go

online at 8:00 a.m. Monday, May 25th, at veterans.nebraska.gov/memorialday. The Nebraska Department of Veterans’ Affairs (NDVA) is host-ing the event and inviting all Nebraskans to attend virtually as in-person events across the state are limited or cancelled by COVID-19. “Memorial Day is an important event throughout the state, especially in our veterans’ homes,” said NDVA Director John Hilgert. “With in-person events not possible this year, we knew there needed to be an alternative for that reflection and remembrance and wanted to provide something all Nebras-kans can participate in.” The ceremony will begin at 8:00 a.m. with the light-ing of a ceremonial candle by Gold Star Mother Monica Alexander and remain lit until her husband, Mel, extinguishes it at 8:00 p.m. Their son, Army Corporal Matthew Alexander, of Gretna, was killed May 6, 2007, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baqubah Iraq. Over the course of the day, 24 honor guards, in groups of two that are com-prised of members of veteran service organizations from across the state, will stand by the candle.

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The Nebraska School Activities Association Board of Di-

rectors voted 7-1 on Thursday to add girls wrestling as

an emerging sport. The emerging sport process takes

place over a three year period, and allows girls to par-

ticipate in their school’s wrestling programs and in the

emerging girls wrestling programs. However, there will

not be a separate state tournament for the girls at this

time. Also on Thursday, the NSAA Representative As-

sembly voted on a measure to make girls wrestling an

NSAA sanctioned winter sport. The measure failed by

three votes. The Assembly did, however, vote to make

bowling an official NSAA winter sport. It is the first time

since 1993 that the NSAA has added a sport.

Volleyball and rodeo are more youth sports that can

begin practice June 1 and competition June 18, Gov. Pete

Ricketts announced Thursday. The state is using stan-

dards set by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which

differ by sport from those released this week by the

sports medicine advisory committee of the National

Federation of State High School Associations. Previously,

youth baseball and softball were on the June 1/June 18

timetable and schools could begin using weight rooms

and gyms for strength and conditioning on June 1.

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