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“PURE SHRIMP” NAMED WINNER Tyler McCarty’s idea to bring a shrimp farm to the area – “Pure Shrimp” was named winner of the 2019 Ben Hormel Business Plan Competition and $18,000 through McCook Community College’s Business and Community Education. “Pure Shrimp” was selected from among seven finalists who presented business plans Friday at MCC. McCarty is working with an advisory firm in Indiana who help estab-lish shrimp farms. This one would be located south of McCook near “M” Hill, and some of the work has already been completed in an-ticipation of the first batch of shrimp. The other six finalists will all receive $2,000 to help infuse area business startups and expansion in the area. Those six businesses include: McCook Mechanical Ser-vices, LLC; Smart Hopperz, Inc.; Woody’s Small Engine; Anderson Sales; Republican Valley Trucking (Harris Trucking); and 308 Coffee Roasters. There were 21 applications in this year’s competition with 14 semi-finalists awarded scholarships to pay for tuition and fees (about $321 worth) to enroll in the mandatory eight-week on-line Entrepreneurship Business Plan writing course offered through Mid-Plains Community College. The Hormel Entrepreneurship Competition is a partnership with McCook Community College and Southwest Ne-braska area business sponsors, to help local business startups or ex-pansion using business plan writing and a business grant and was open to those in seven Southwest Nebraska counties including Chase, Dundy, Hitchcock, Hayes, Frontier, Red Willow, and Furnas.

EARLY MORNING FIRE he Loomis and Bertrand Fire Departments responded to a fire early Monday morning three miles north and a quarter mile west on 738 road. The fire was originally identified as a grass fire by the report-ing party. To add to the obstacles, the fire was noticed very late. Loomis Fire Chief, Orville Samuelson said that by the time his depart-ment responded it was far too late. “When we got there we were expecting a grass fire, “Samuelson said, “instead it was two build-ings and they were already burned to the ground. It was an old barn and machine shed.” Samuelson estimated that the fire started around midnight. He said that the Loomis department didn’t get called until 5:00 a.m. Because they had responded to the grass fire report they didn’t have the right equipment. So, the Bertrand Fire Department was called in for mutual aid. Samuelson said, all told, firefighters were on scene for about three hours.

PROPOSAL NEARLY FINISHED A Nebraska legislative committee is nearly finished with its proposal to lower property taxes by raising other taxes and boosting state aid to K-12 public schools. Members of the Revenue Committee con-tinued debate Monday on their package, but it's not clear whether every member will support it. Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, the committee's chairwoman, says she hopes to vote on it Tuesday. The package would reduce property taxes by an average of 20 percent, although the exact amount would vary throughout Nebraska. The bill would pay for it by eliminating $98.7 million in sales tax exemptions on 31 goods and services, including junk food, pop and bottled water, dry cleaning, hair care and dating and escort services. It also would im-pose a half-cent sales tax increase and raise cigarette taxes.

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SPORTS Nebraska Basketball Coach Fred Hoiberg announced Monday that junior college star Cam Mack (Austin, Texas) will join the Husker basketball team for the 2019-20 campaign. Mack, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound point guard, brings impressive credentials to Nebraska, as he is the No. 3 overall JUCO recruit and top JC point guard in the nation according to JUCORecruiting.com. He is also the highest-rated recruit to sign with Nebraska since the website began in 2011. Mack, who has three years of eligibility remaining, joins fellow newcomer Jervay Green as two of the top-10 junior college prospects in the 2019 class. “We are excited to add Cam to our program,” said Hoiberg. “He possesses elite quickness and play-making ability and his skill set will allow us to play an up-tempo style. With the graduation of Glynn Watson Jr., finding a lead guard was a priority for us this spring.” Weather and opponent losses have extended the McCook Commu-nity College softball season by at least another 12 days. MCC needed to finish in the top four in the standings to qualify for the post-season tournament but over the weekend fifth-place Lamar was eliminated with weekend losses. The Lady Indians were scheduled to travel to Scottsbluff today for two games but because of weather, those games will be played Saturday, starting at 2 p.m. (MT). The first game will be the resumption of a rain-suspended game on Easter Sunday. MCC leads the Cougars 4-3 in the bottom of the fourth inning but WNCC has bases loaded with one out. With a pair of wins Saturday, MCC could be the third seed. The Region IX tournament will be May 9-11. The Lady Indians are scheduled to play at home Tuesday against North Platte in games scheduled for 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. It will be the annual Purple Out games for Epilepsy (games that had been postponed twice during the season because of weather.

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