SCANNER RECAP July 24, 2023 – Monday

IN THIS ISSUE

Tractor Fire Victims Thankful
Sound of Freedom – FREE
Trafficker Disguised as Student
Hot Weather Tips
Balloon Fest Schedule
Upcoming 5K Events
Leadership Scotts Bluff Registration
Dawes & Sioux County Fairs
Potter’s Wheel Clearance Sale
Obituaries
Community Calendar

Tractor Fire Victims Thankful

The Tractor Fire we reported on ended up being some good friends of ours going back 40 years. Chad and Pam Conklin’s place is where it happened. We were so relieved to see Pam’s post.

Pam wrote, “Thank you to our wonderful neighbors who came to help with our tractor fires or just to be at our side for support. So many asked what they could do, which being there was everything. Even offering to get Chads shoes. Lol. Thanks to the ones who grabbed extinguishers and jumped in and helped. To all the Fitts and Bairds who came and tried doing all they could and along with Chad and AJ, they succeeded. Vance and Dan worked hard getting other equipment out of the way, along with the Bairds and them getting fire extinguishers out. Also, the support of Kevin Batt ( which was his birthday), the Grote’s, and Lindsey. Finally, the Bayard, Minatare/Melbeta, and Bridgeport firemen and women made it. I guess GPS or whatever confused them all. After being very shook up and calling 911 three times they all came 45 minutes later, but was appreciated very much. It’s so wonderful how your friends come a running when needed. We are so blessed it only destroyed tractors and didn’t continue to our shop or house. God has a better plan than us, and we will move on. Prayers no one else got the smoke in their lungs like us, and thanks again for everything. Hope I didn’t miss anyone. It was crazy. Thank you for all the phone calls too. We Love our neighbors.”

Now that’s an All-Star lineup of neighbors. I hope we can all learn from their example.

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FREE Tickets to Sound of Freedom

An anonymous donor has made it possible for anyone to go see this movie for FREE at the Midwest Theater July 28-30, 2023.

Meanwhile, through Wednesday, Cinema 6 is showing the movie as well. Free Tickets can be claimed online for the Cinema 6 showing from http://www.angel.com

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NE Man Poses as Student in Lincoln Schools

Pedophiles and child sex traffickers will do anything to fulfill their wants ($$$$) and potentially ruin others’ lives.

A 26 year old Lincoln Nebraska man was arrested for Child Sex Trafficking and other charges after attending multiple Lincoln area schools pretending to be 17.

Check out this Fox News Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyAh9zR3US4

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Leadership Scotts Bluff is currently accepting applications for Class 34. Deadline to submit your application is Friday, July 28th. Click here for the application.

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Dangerous Driver Hotline *55

If you see a dangerous driver on the roads, you can always call *55 to report it to an NSP Dispatcher.

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Storm Damage?

If your car got hail damage in the last few storms, give Midwest Auto a call. They have a lot of good used glass, hoods, fenders, deck lids etc. Call their sales team today at 308-632-6600. If they don’t have it, they can find it!

If you are insured by American Family Insurance, Kendell Henderson is ready to handle your claims. Give him a call, stop in, or click below to visit his website.

Click or Tap to visit my website! – Kendell

Local Jail Inmate Search

Nebraska State Inmate Search

Sex Offender Registry Search

*Know your surroundings and your neighbors*

Have you seen The Sound of Freedom Movie yet? If not, find a way to go see it. It is Free.

The Ugly Truth podcast by Andi and Brian Hale.

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Teen RUNAWAYS

Help Wanted at Main Street Market

Always be aware of your surroundings.

#SafetyFirst – A train is faster and quieter than you think. You may not have time to react. Only cross at designated crossings.

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Hot Weather Safety

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Tornado Shelters Updated

Click or Tap for Tornado Shelters!

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Beverly Jane Aye

APRIL 17, 1928 – JULY 19, 2023

Beverly Jane (Robinson) Aye passed away July 19th, 2023 at Monument Rehabilitation and Care in Scottsbluff. Bev entered the cosmetology profession apprenticing in Gering. She eventually worked at other salons in Scottsbluff before going into business for herself with “Beverly’s Beauty Shop.”

Holly Main

AUGUST 13, 1970 – JULY 10, 2023

Holly Marie Main, 52, of Minatare, passed away on Monday, July 10, 2023, at her home surrounded by loved ones after her courageous battle with cancer. She was young at heart and enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren.

Andi and Brian Hale offer encouragement on their daily Faith Matters podcast.

Reframing Failure

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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Old West Balloon Fest

Get your EVENT PASS for the 2023 Old West Balloon Fest on their website at http://www.theoldwestballoonfest.com

SCHEDULE

Opening Night Glow Wednesday, August 9 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Western Nebraska Community College

Media Flight Thursday, August 10 TBA TBA

Mass Ascension Friday & Saturday, August 11 and 12 Gates 5:30 Launch 6:15 am Mitchell Airfield

Craft Fair Saturday, August 12 7:30 am-3:00 pm Center Ave, Mitchell, NE

Cornhole Tournament Saturday, August 12 10:00 am In Front of Redz Bar

Weiner Dog Race Saturday, August 12 11:00 am Park at the South End of Center Ave

Closing Night Glow Saturday, August 12 Gates at 5:00 pm (The “Glow” is at sunset) Grasslands at Five Rocks

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Potter’s Wheel Clearance Sale

School calendar, supply lists, sports physical forms and all things “BACK TO SCHOOL” are ready for you in one stop, visit https://www.geringschools.net/page/student-family-portal

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Dawes County Fair

Sioux County Fair

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Bearcat Stampede 5K

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Torrington, Wyoming

5K to Benefit TVFD Ladies Auxiliary

Scotts Bluff County Scanner – created and developed by Hale Multimedia.

Show your #bearcatpride by never missing a game! We are currently running a special on Family Activity Passes now through July 31.

End of Summer Craft Fair

MJs Cutz & The Bard’s Den-Books & Beyond will hosting a End of Summer craft fair!!

Saturday August 19th, 2023.

2400 Ave I Ste A, Scottsbluff Ne 69361

Looking for vendors & food trucks!

No booth fees! Call 816.598.5252

Tap or Click for a wild podcast from Brian and Andi Hale of Digging Deeper Media.

Free Labor Day Musical Festival

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Friday Oct 23 2026 - Scanner News - Panhandle Scanner News

Missing Persons is a mission we take very seriously. If you need help finding a missing or runaway juvenile, please contact Panhandle Scanner. A missing 15-year-old boy from Morrill was reported who had been missing since 6.30 p.m. Wednesday night. Good news, Brayden has been found! Well, yesterday, J.D. Vance, the Vice President of the United States, was in North Platte, Nebraska talking about agricultural business possibilities. We'll have more on that as it develops. A large response was seen Wednesday night on Highway 71 south of Gering on the highway near Robidoux Road. Scanner traffic indicated that a 67-year-old male had experienced a medical incident and crashed into a power pole near Highway 71 in Robidoux Road just south of Gering on Wednesday. Further traffic indicated airbag deployment and, fortunately, no injuries on the way to Regional West. Last night, a traffic stop occurred around 4th Avenue and East Overland in Scotts Bluff that involved the Nebraska State Patrol assisting. In the end, one male was 10-15, or under arrest, and booked into the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center. Late last night, scanner traffic indicated a trooper sideswiped a deer and possibly damaged his cruiser. A second unit was requested. The weather is getting colder, and the coffee is hot, so let's get all the best coffee businesses on a map. If your business is related to coffee in some way or another, and you are located in the Wyobraska region, sign up on Panhandlescanner.com to put your business on the map. Once we have enough participation to make a nice printed map, we'll print it and distribute it around the Panhandle. In the meantime, we'll publish it as an interactive online map for immediate exposure. Check it out on Panhandlescanner.com. That's going to do it for today's scanner news. Thanks again for listening, and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale. Photo by SB Rural Fire; Dario Santos, Winner - Chili Cook-Off

Changed By The Unchanging One (Making Change) Day 5 of 5 - Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

From Making Change by Michelle Van Loon Like many kids, I used to imagine that adulthood was a goal and maturity was a given. But now that I’ve been an adult for a while (a long while!), I’ve learned that maturity is not automatic, but must be cultivated. The word used in the New Testament for maturity is teleios, a common word that means finished, complete, or fully grown. It describes the purpose and shape of a Jesus follower’s journey with Him. It is not the name of its destination. “ Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Colossians 2:6-7 ESV Paul’s words to his friends in the church in Colossae emphasize the importance of growing through challenges and trials. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the resurrected Jesus had brought radical change to those who were a part of this early church community. In addition to the stunning reality of radically changed lives, the church in Colossae was also dealing with the temptations to follow false teachers and the trials brought on by waves of persecution. Paul’s deepest desire for them – and us –was that we would plunge our roots deeply into Christ so we would not be swayed by our changing circumstances. He prayed our lives would be marked by gratitude – not as a performance, but as the overflow of our journey toward maturity in his company. Even when our circumstances turn our expectations upside down and inside out, the God who loves us perfectly is at work cultivating maturity in our lives. Prayer: When change threatens to uproot me, Lord, I ask that you help me to stay rooted and growing in maturity. Help me to trust you today. I thank you that in this always changing world, you never change. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, amen.

Radical Pruning (Making Change) Day 4 of 5 - Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

From Making Change by Michelle Van Loon When I learned that my hairdresser was a hobbyist hibiscus breeder, I told him about the three neglected old hibiscus bushes that were on the property of our new home. The skeletal plants were nearly leafless, and I figured I’d need to dig them up and replace them. He urged me instead to lop off about two-thirds of their branches. “It might look like you killed them. Fertilize them well and watch what happens.” He was right. It did look like I killed them after I first gave them a serious haircut with the hedge clippers. Sprinkling fertilizer around the base of the woody, shorn stumps seemed an exercise in futility. But within a few months, the trio of bushes were covered in green leaves and saucer-sized blooms. When it seems as though our lives are undergoing radical pruning, all we can see are the places where good and promising things once existed. Pastor Warren Wiersbe said, “Your heavenly Father is never nearer to you than when He is pruning you.” Pruning is rarely pleasant, nor is it instantly beautiful or fruitful. It hurts. “ I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ” John 15:1-2 ESV We can trust that our Master Gardener is near, cultivating his goodness from the places in our lives that he’s currently pruning. But if your trust seems as sparse and barren as the branches on a blunt stub of a hibiscus bush after its been pruned, say so. Crying out for God’s help itself is an expression of trust, and is the place where new life and fresh growth begins. Prayer: Father, the pruning that accompanies changes in my life is painful and confusing. I thought those areas were fruitful, and I’ll confess that I don’t understand why you’re doing what you’re doing right now. Please help me to discover you are near. I pray these things in the name of the one who is God-with-us, your Son Jesus.

Lost in New Territory (Making Change) Day 3 of 5 - Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

From Making Change by Michelle Van Loon In the days before readily available GPS navigation on our cell phones, I told my kids we’d be taking a quick run to the post office in our new town. A glance at the map told me the address was directly at the center of a spaghetti-bowl of hilly one-way streets. I was a veteran big city driver and figured the small suburban downtown area wouldn’t be a major challenge. After more than a half hour of driving in circles around that up-and-down tangle of streets, stopping to ask for directions twice, I gave up and returned home. I never found the post office that day, though later I discovered I’d driven by it several times. I relied on my earlier experience as a city driver to help me navigate my strange new location. That experience actually got in the way of me being able to make sense of what my eyes were seeing that day. I was so disoriented that after a while, I forgot what I was searching for. Understandably, we’re prone to rely on our previous experience to navigate change in our lives. While that previous experience may be of value, it can also hinder us from being able to assess and respond to what is happening right now. We need a guide who knows the terrain, especially when it is uncharted territory for us. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ” John 10:27 ESV In John 10, Jesus told his followers that there would be unhelpful or destructive people presenting themselves as caring guides who would lead them astray. He urged his followers to learn to listen to his voice. We can do that by engaging in regular Bible reading so we can learn to discern who God is and what he says, and by simple, conversational prayer. He will guide us step by step, even when it seems as though we are traveling without a map. Prayer: Good Shepherd Jesus, I am disoriented by this strange new place in which I find myself. Please protect me from the other voices who are not guiding me in the way I should travel. Please help me hear your voice clearly and follow you faithfully.

The Ache of Change (Making Change) Day 2 of 5 - Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

From Making Change by Michelle Van Loon When I was fired from a job I’d fought hard to keep, a friend reminded me that I should be prepared for grief to present itself as I processed the loss. And she was right. I spent some time telling myself it was all for the best. I found myself dealing with eruptions of frustration and anger as I replayed months of difficult inter-office politics where it seemed I lost too many hyper-political interoffice skirmishes with a difficult coworker. I grew depressed, and days of initial shock became weeks blanketed by a wooly, gray emotional fog. The rejections I received as I dutifully searched for a new job amplified my sadness. While a job loss might be an easily-identifiable source of grief, I have discovered that every change – even a welcome one – carries with it some form of grief. For example, when a young adult child marries, you may love the partner they’ve chosen, and be overjoyed about the new family they’re forming, but find yourself unexpectedly aching with nostalgia as you come to terms with the reality that you’ve come to the end of an era in your family’s story. For more than 10 years, I have walked alongside many who are moving into midlife. Many are caught off guard by the endings that often come at this time of life – empty nest, career shifts, changes in family life and status. It has been a privilege to help others recognize that our souls process change in much the same way we experience grief. “ Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.” Job 13:15 ESV When Job dealt with a breathtaking pile-up of loss, his confession of hope in God contained a frank acknowledgement that he was actively grieving all the ways his life had changed. Reflect today on how changes you’ve experienced recently have elicited some form of grief response in your soul. These responses can include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Prayer: Unchanging Father, as I navigate this time of transition in my life, I am grieving a past I can not reclaim. Kindle within me a spark of hope as I continue to process these changes. I ask this in the name of your always faithful Son, Jesus.

The Whole Truth (Making Change) Day 1 of 5 - Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

From Making Change by Michelle Van Loon “I’m so sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis. How are you holding up?” I was grateful to have a moment of conversation with Tonya, a popular leader at church. Tonya smiled a 1000-watt smile. “Praise the Lord! God is good!” She then told me about how she’d had an opportunity to share her faith with a radiologist tech at the hospital earlier that week. I’d recently received a different, serious medical diagnosis, and had not responded with a 1000-watt smile like Tonya had. Frankly, I didn’t feel amazing. I’d logged some long, sleepless nights wrestling with God about what my future held and walked away from the conversation with Tonya wondering if there was something deficient in my faith. While each of us responds to bad news differently, God is not looking for a spiritual performance from any of us. This is the antithesis of what God already knows is true about us. 2 Samuel 11-12 details King David’s sin against God, Bathsheba, her husband Uriah, and his people. Psalm 51 captures his prayer of confession. It also offers us a reminder that to stay connected to God in relationship, He requires complete honesty from us. “Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.” Psalm 51:6 ESV These words were spoken in the context of confession of sin, but they apply just as powerfully to every aspect of our lives. When we face the challenge of unwelcome change in the form of a scary diagnosis, a lost job, broken relationship, or anything that sends our lives in a difficult new direction, it takes real faith to tell the truth. If you are brimming with trust, rest in that confidence. And if you are shaken and shaky, offer yourself just as you are to God, and know that the truth is all he asks of you in that moment – and every moment. Prayer: Lord, in this time of challenge in my life, I am disoriented and afraid. And by speaking that truth to you about myself, I recognize that I am taking a step toward learning to trust you as I am now in this difficult place. Please help me to grow in that trust, I pray, in the name of the One who made me and knows me better than I know myself.