Bethany volunteer and staff recognized

Bethany Lutheran Home/Bethany Heights, a longtime volunteer and several staff members were honored Tuesday by the Iowa Association for Homes and Services for the Aging.

• Salute in Veterans Plaza

  A tribute to veterans will be conducted in the Veterans Plaza in Bayliss Park Saturday at 9 a.m.

• SOLAS - Remember the safety of pets during Fourth festivities

  BOOM – POP – CRACK! That’s the sound of firecrackers that you hear – now magnify that by 100 times and that’s what your dogs and cats hear. For their safety, remember to keep your companion animals in a quiet area of your house while the firecrackers are being set off.

Coaches honor city stars

The three finalists for The Daily Nonpareil’s girls soccer player of the year were among those receiving all-state honors this week by the varsity coaches in Iowa.

• Cards win two, near league title

  UNDERWOOD – Treynor baseball coach Bob Mantell has never won a Western Iowa Conference championship in his tenure at the school.

• Treynor miscues help Eagles take control of WIC

  UNDERWOOD – The Underwood softball team has spent much of the season winning on its own. In a pivotal Western Iowa Conference doubleheader Wednesday, it got help from the opposition.

Kearney among fastest growing Nebraska cities

KEARNEY - Something about Kearney convinced Paul Brungardt to move here from Lincoln eight years ago.

• Classmates work together to fight cancer

  WAHOO - There were about 75 kids in the Wahoo High School Class of 1972. When given their diplomas, those kids were most likely charged to out into the world and make a difference.

• Casino Omaha may reopen

  ONAWA (WHNS) – About 185 people are laid off in a move the manager says is an attempt to save the Onawa facility.

• Our View

Friday's Our View: Tough decisions, painful implications

A series of decisions earlier this week by a government advisory panel could have painful implications. The Food and Drug Administration panel voted 20-17 that prescription drugs that combine acetaminophen with other painkilling ingredients should be pulled off the market because of their role in deadly overdoses.

• Columns

• ON THE SCHMITT LIST: 2-for-1 ticket deal and a K.C. baseball trip

  As people who read this column on a regular basis – that is when I have time to write the column – will already know, I’m a fan of baseball and my wife is an even bigger fan. We’re simple fans. We are not historians, and neither one of us can quote you a single statistic. We simply enjoy sitting in a ballpark and watching the game of baseball.

• Your Views