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Terrific! Kudos to WP One-Act team |
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Written by Wauneta Breeze
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 22:09 |
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Community Shout-Out
Thank you, Wauneta-Palisade High School, for the tremendous one act play performance at the District Contest. You were absolutely terrific!
Thank you, Mrs. Noler, for your wonderful choice of play and outstanding casting. We appreciate your hard work, tremendous knowledge, teaching ability and creative energy.
Students, you are the best. Terrific things happen when you work hard, have a lofty goal with outstanding guidance and instruction.
Kudos also to the supporting workers, students and adults. You were extremely important to this smashing success.
Wauneta-Palisade is a terrific school.
Wauneta is the place to be.
Tony Cribelli
Wauneta, Neb. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 22:09 |
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Children benefit from kinship care |
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Written by Wauneta Breeze
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 22:06 |
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We believe children ‘grow’ best in their own homes, but we also know that sometimes law enforcement must remove children from their home to keep them safe from abuse or neglect. These children are placed in the custody of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS).
Families Matter, the initiative that’s changing Nebraska’s child welfare and juvenile services system, is serving an increasing number of children through the use of kinship care. Nearly half of all Nebraska children in out-of-home placements were in kinship care with aunts, uncles, grandparents and family friends in September 2011.
“Kinship care” minimizes trauma and creates stability by placing children with people they know and have a relationship with.
Their safe transition back home when appropriate can be smoother, and the connection to the relative or friend who cared for them is likely to continue.
I’d like to thank kinship caregivers who are raising their grandchildren, nieces or nephews, or children of close family friends, when the parents cannot. Their commitment to their extended family can make a life-long positive difference to the child.
For example, “Emily’s” been in foster care for six years. Despite best efforts, no foster homes would provide a permanent home for her.
Because her caseworker searched again for people who knew Emily, she’s now living with her half-brother and his father, who’s considering guardianship for her. Stories like Emily’s are now happening for more Nebraska children.
Department staff statewide and our partners in the eastern and southeast part of the state, KVC Nebraska and Nebraska Families Collaborative, continue to focus on kinship care for children who aren’t able to live at home.
In Nebraska, Families Matter!
Kerry Winterer, CEO
Nebraska Department
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 22:06 |
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Letter to the Editor: Tea Party kudos; Faith vs Works |
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Written by Wauneta Breeze
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011 17:45 |
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Tea Party people are wide awake
I’m so thankful that we still have the right to freely express an opinion.
I disagree with the piece written by Bureau Chief Quinlan. She says … her quote “Tea Party people are just plain dumb.”
Tea Party people are wide awake, and aware of how political winds are tested! Also honest! Also smart!
Our president has already made his political decision to not make a decision till after the 2012 elections. How astute! He tested the winds.
Ann Knickerbocker
Wauneta
(A Capitol Commentary, by Mary Kay Quinlan, Nov. 10, 2011, issue of the Wauneta Breeze: “And what if their views are just plain dumb, like those of placard-carrying Tea Party demonstrators earlier this year whose signs famously read: ‘Keep the government out of my Medicare’ ?’)
Faith vs. Works
Salvation is a free gift … Discipleship costs everything … There are many cults (some very bizarre) feigning religion!
But the essence of religion — how to get Peace with God — can be only one of two ways: the works of man OR the grace of God.
“Now to him that worketh not, but believeth on him, that justifieth the unGodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” Romans 4:4-5.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: Romans 5:7A but God commendeth his love toward us; in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new, II Corinthians 5:17. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Romans 8:9C.
Frank Sowers
Benkelman, Neb. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 18:25 |
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Knotwell’s morally-charged analysis of Keystone XL pipeline insightful |
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Written by Wauneta Breeze
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 18:57 |
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As Dr. James Knotwell points out in his letter to the editor (“Tragedy of Keystone XL pipeline debacle is the loss of local sovereignty” Wauneta Breeze, Nov. 4, 2011) the Keystone XL project is a perfect example of corporate sovereignty trumping the needs of individual localities and regions.
Oil company spokespeople say our economy cannot grow without the dirty crude of the Alberta tar sands, when what they really mean is that their balance sheets won’t grow nearly as fast.
TransCanada’s advocates cynically trade off the pipeline’s inevitable environmental and health impacts with the sop of a few locally-based jobs.
Dr. Knotwell’s morally-charged analysis gains force when applied on larger scales of place and time.
Extracting the tar sands’ oil endangers the environment upon which all earthly life depends; the CO2 released into the atmosphere is going to take centuries to dissipate — and our civilization will be threatened in ways we can barely imagine. An economy in which corporate profits outrank the long-term survival and prosperity of our species is profoundly immoral.
Warren Senders
Medford, Mass |
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