SCANNER RECAP Aug 10, 2023 – Thursday

IN THIS ISSUE

More Night Glow Photos
Watching The Skies
Wiener Dog Races & Craft Fair
Duck Dash Tickets
End of Summer Craft Fair
Fire Training
#BackTheBlue
Look Who’s Hiring
Startup Business Challenge
Community Calendar

Old West Balloon Fest Night Glow

Some of the very best night glow photos were captured by Susan Wiedeman, as shown in the Old West Balloon Fest post below. Click to visit the festival’s page.

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Do You Enjoy Watching The Skies?

There are lots of reasons to watch the skies. In the past year (or three) there have been several reports of Chinese Spy Balloons, Unidentified Flying Things (UFOs, UAPs), Mysterious Drones, Satellites, Historical Moons, Hot Air Balloons, and now a major meteor shower!

If you are interested in watching the skies, NASA has a great website setup to ‘steer you’ in the right direction.

To learn about the skies, visit nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/watchtheskies

The meteor shower peaks on the night of August 12 as the Earth passes through the dustiest debris of comet Swift-Tuttle’s trails. The Perseid meteor shower is often considered to be the best meteor shower of the year due to its high rates and pleasant late-summer temperatures. Unlike last year’s shower coinciding with the full moon, this year’s moon will be a waning crescent, allowing even some of the fainter meteors to be seen.

The Perseids appear to radiate from a point in the constellation Perseus, and each meteor has a similar orbit. Meteor showers take their name from the location of their point of origin, or what is known as the radiant.

Fun fact:
The Perseid meteor shower is the only meteor shower to delay a Space Shuttle launch. In 1993, the NASA-STS-51 launch was delayed due to concerns about the Perseid meteor shower activity being forecast to be extremely heavy, increasing the chance that a spacecraft in Earth orbit could be damaged by a piece of the debris.

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Wildfire Training Academy

Our local agencies conduct and/or attend several trainings each year to ensure their readiness to serve the community, many of them on a volunteer basis, sacrificing their own time and money to help.

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Duck Dash Tickets

Ducks are on sale NOW throughout Western Nebraska! Stop by one of our great partners and get your ducks for a chance to win one of 35 Quack-tastic prizes!

SCOTTSBLUFF
Team Auto Center (2014 E 20th Place)
Riverstone Bank ( 2002 Broadway)
Main Street Market (401 S. Beltline) Highway- Customer Service Desk)
United Way Office (1517 Broadway)
RWMC Gift Shop (4021 Ave B)

GERING
Riverstone Bank (1540 10th Street)

ALLIANCE
ALLO (203 W. 3rd)

SIDNEY
Beans & Steams Coffee House (610 Glover Rd Suite #10)

CHADRON
Apricot Lane at the New Leaf Marketplace (1002 East 3rd)

Each duck purchase gives you a chance to win 1 of 35 prizes valued at over $45,000!!! Grand prize is a brand NEW 2024 Chevrolet Trax (loaded with a sunroof, heated seats, and so much more!) donated by Team Auto Center, 2nd prize is a 2023 Honda 520 Side-by-side donated in part by Sandberg Honda. See all the prizes and purchase ducks online at uwwn.org/duck.