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SECOND ROUND OF FALL CLASSES The second round of eight-week fall classes will begin Monday at Mid-Plains Community College. Students can sign up for any of them the first week they are offered. A variety of on-site, online and distance

learning courses are available, and many are open enrollment, mean-ing anyone can take them. Introduction to the Visual Arts, Human Anat-omy/Physiology I, Personal/Professional Development, Introduction to Business, Job Search Strategies, College Prep Writing, English Compo-sition II, the Literature of Nature and Music Appreciation are just some of the classes offered. Others include: Supply Chain Management,

Fundamentals of Mathematics, Elementary Algebra, College Algebra, Fundamentals of Phlebotomy, Nursing Assistant, Medication Aide, Risk Management for Events and Sports, Drugs and Sports, Leadership Behavior, Intro to Logic and Critical Thinking, American Government, Beginning Computer I and II, QuickBooks and Microsoft Office Excel.

Additionally, numerous physical education classes are available through the college.

NEXT YEAR’S LEGISLATIVE SESSION Gov. Pete Ricketts says he will concentrate on three areas during next year’s legislative session. Ricketts has given a talk to the Lincoln Cham-

ber of Commerce. Ricketts says agriculture brings jobs to rural Ne-braska, but manufacturing can as well. Ricketts says his administration has pitched potential manufacturing sites throughout the state. “We can’t be a healthy state if we’re just growing Lincoln and Omaha,’ Ricketts tells the chamber. “We have to grow the entire state. Manu-facturing allows us to do that.” Ricketts says his recent trade mission to

Japan concentrated on both increasing agricultural exports to Japan as well as encouraging more Japanese investment in Nebraska. As for the legislative session which begins in January, Ricketts says he will concentrate on promoting legislation to cut taxes, cut regulations, and invest in the state’s workforce. Modifications were made to LB 461

during the previous legislative session, but it still fell six votes short of the total needed to end a filibuster mounted against it and go to a vote in the Unicameral. LB 461 proposed cutting the top state individ-ual and corporate tax rate gradually, at about one-tenth of a percent at a time until it dropped from the current rate of 6.84% to 5.99%.

RED CROSS IS LOOKING FOR CITIZENS Do you know someone who has performed an extraordinary act of courage or dedicated countless hours to a special cause? The Ameri-can Red Cross is looking for those unheralded and unselfish citizens who have gone above and beyond in their everyday lives. A hero

from both Nebraska and Iowa will be honored before a crowd at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln when the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Hy-Vee Heroes Game on Friday, November 24. Nominations for heroes are being accepted now through October 22 on the Red Cross Nebraska website. People who are nominated to be a hero must be at least 18 years of age and live, work or go to school

in either Nebraska or Iowa; however, their act of heroism or good deed need not have occurred in either state. Recipients will receive tickets to the game and on-field recognition. They also will have their name and hometown inscribed on the Hy-Vee Heroes Game trophy.

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SPORTS

The McCook Lady Bison softball team split a pair of games yes-

terday during the first day of the Class B state tournament in

Hastings. The eight-seeded Lady Bison upset top-seed and Class

B defending champion Elkhorn South in the opener 9-5. Gretna

hit six home runs in an 18-9 win over the MHS girls in a win-

ner's bracket game last night. McCook will face the winner of

the 11:30 a.m. game between York and Hastings. Pregame

coverage on KICX starts at 1:50 with the first pitch at 2 p.m. The

Bison boys tennis team play their Class B state tournament first

round matches this morning in Lincoln. The Bison cross country

teams are in Ogallala for their district meet. The top three

teams qualify for the state meet next week. The Lady Bison

volleyball team hosts North Platte tonight at the MHS gym.

The fourth-ranked Nebraska volleyball team fell for the first

time in Big Ten play as No. 11 Wisconsin topped the Huskers 3-1

(25-16, 25-15, 17-25, 25-23)on Wednesday night in front of a

crowd of 6,012 at the UW Field House. The Huskers (13-4, 6-1

Big Ten) had their seven-match win streak snapped by the

Badgers, who broke out of a three-match skid to improve to 12-

4 overall and 3-4 in the Big Ten. Wisconsin outhit the Husk-

ers .296 to .163 and had a 13-8 advantage in blocks. Jazz Sweet

had 11 kills to lead the Huskers. Briana Holman had nine kills

and three blocks, and Mikaela Foecke added nine kills and 11

digs. Annika Albrecht finished with eight kills and nine digs.

Kelly Hunter had 35 assists and 10 digs for her fifth-straight

double-double. Kenzie Maloney had 11 digs, and Lauren Stivrins

had a team-high four blocks to go with five kills.

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