SCANNER RECAP Oct 8, 2023 – Sunday

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#fireprevention || Back to Top

Fire Prevention Week

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Time To Winterize

The Panhandle of Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming saw freezing temperatures Friday night into Saturday morning.

Remember, when the freeze is on its way, take care of those plants and pipes!

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Scottsbluff Main Street Market

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Star Gazing Opportunities

Draco and Orion raining down shooting stars 🌠

This month, 2 major meteor showers are peaking:

🐲 the Draconids on October 9
🏹 the Orionids on October 22

During their peak, the Draconids will provide up to 10 meteors per hour, while the Orionids will grace us with up to 20 meteors per hour. To spot these meteors, look for them from 45 to 90 degrees away from the radiant of each shower, located in the constellations Draco and Orion respectively. 🤩

To fully enjoy this celestial show, gather your friends, grab a warm blanket, a lawn chair, and a thermos of tea or coffee. ☕🌃 And if you’re really passionate about shooting star hunting, see other smaller meteor showers happening this month. Get the full list and observing details here 👇️
https://starwalk.space/news/october-meteor-showers

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Ring of Fire

Keep your eyes to the sky (with proper protection, of course), as the October 14th eclipse will bring us the infamous ring of fire!

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Area Church Services

AREA CHURCHES
This is a raw, growing list of info submitted by our scanner followers. Please let us know of any changes or additions in the comments.

ACTS UPC 509 West Overland Scottsbluff, NE 11:30 am

Anchor Baptist Church Scottsbluff NE Sun 11:00 am 6:00 pm

Bayard Church of Christ Bayard NE Sun 10:30 am

Berean Bible Church, 1701 Avenue K, Scottsbluff NE Sun 10:00 am

Bethel Baptist Church 1802 Ave I Scottsbluff NE Sun 10:45 am

Bible Baptist Church 2023 Avenue C Scottsbluff, NE Sun 10:30 am

Calvary Gering 265 18th St Gering NE Sun 8:30 am 10:45 am 6:30 pm

Calvary Lutheran 17 E 27th St, Scottsbluff NE, Sat 5:30pm, Sun 10:00 am

Central Church of Christ Sun 8 am 10:30 am

Centro De Alabanza Y Adoration 1825 Country Club Rd Gering NE

Christ The King 18th and M Street Gering NE Sat 5pm Sun 10:30am

Church of the First Born 1405 Ave I Scottsbluff NE Sun 10am Wed 7:30pm

Cleansing Flame Worship Center 1030 O Street, Gering NE

Community Bible Church, 900 Main St Bayard Sun 10 am

Community of Christ Church, 4th Ave, Scottsbluff, NE Sun 11:00 am

Cornerstone Fellowship Bayard NE Sun 10am 6:30pm

Emmanuel Congregational Scottsbluff NE Sun 10:30am

Faith Lutheran Church Gering NE Sun 9am

Faith United Church of Christ Bayard NE Sun 10:30am

Federated Church Center Ave Mitchell NE Sun 10:30am

First Assembly of God Sun 10:30am

First Baptist Church Bridgeport NE Sun 9am

First Baptist Church Scottsbluff 7:30-9 Free Breakfast, 9am Sunday School, Sun 10:30am

First Church of God 2122 Ave F Scottsbluff NE Sun 10:30am Wed 6:15pm 308-632-8724

First Presbyterian Church 101 E 20th st Scottsbluff NE Sun 10am

Gering United Methodist Gering NE Sun 8am 9:30am

Gering Zion Gering NE

Gloryland Bridgeport 508 J St Bridgeport NE Sun 10am Wed 7pm

Grace Chapel Scottsbluff, NE Sun 10:00 am

Harrisburg Community Church, 110 Illinois Ave. Harrisburg, NE Sun 11:00 am

Harvest Valley Church, 743 Wintercreek Dr, Scottsbluff, NE Sun 8:45 am and 11:00 am 308-632-2543

Heartland Baptist Church, 310 Yellowstone ave, Alliance NE, Sun 10am, 12:15am, Wed 7pm

House of Miracles, 1502 10th Ave, Scottsbluff, NE Sun 10:00 am and 4:00 pm

Kimball Trinity UMC Kimball NE Sun 9am

Life Unlimited 502 W 14th St Scottsbluff NE Sun 10am 308-637-2154

Living Stones Christian Church 1650 9th St Gering Nebraska Sun 10am

Maranatha Temple 795 O street Gering, NE Sun 10:00 am

Methodist Church 2002 4th Ave, Scottsbluff, NE Sat 5:30 pm and Sun 9:00 am

Mitchell Berean Mitchell NE Sat 6pm, Sun 8am 11am

Mount Calvary Lutheran, Bayard, NE Sun 9:00 am

Monument Bible Gering NE Sun 9:30 & 10:45 am

Mitchell Berean Mitchell, NE Sat 6:00 pm Sun 8:00 am, 11:00 am

Mitchell New Hope Assembly of God Sun 10:30am

Mitchell Evangelical Free Church Sun 10:30am

New Beginning Church of the Nazarene, Scottsbluff, NE Sun 10:45 am

New Hope Assembly of God, 1460 13th Ave, Mitchell. NE Sun 10:30 am 608-393-9436

North Hills Baptist Church, Lingle, WY Sun 10:00 am

Northfield Church 2105 17th St Gering NE Sun 10:30am

Our Lady of Guadalupe NE Sat 5pm Sun 8am 11am

Salem Congregational Scottsbluff NE Sun 10am

Scottsbluff Church of Christ, 1919 Avenue N, Scottsbluff NE, Sun 10:30am

SonRise Church 1100 East Valley Rd Torrington WY Sat 6pm Sun 10am

Sovereign Grace Reformed Church, Morrill, NE Sun 10:30am and 2:30pm

Spring Creek Church 140396 Spring Creek Dr Mitchell NE Sun 10:30am

St Agnes Catholic Church 2314 3rd Ave Scottsbluff NE Sat 5pm Sun 8am 10am

St Rose of Lima Torrington WY Sat 4pm Sun 7am 9am

St. Francis Episcopal Sun 9am

St John’s Lutheran Church, 2220 Broadway, Scottsbluff, NE Sat 6:30 pm and Sun 9:00 am

St. Theresa Mitchell NE Sun 8am

The Rock Church Scottsbluff NE Sun 9am 11am

United Presbyterian Church, Guernsey WY Sun 9am

Valley Bible Church, 1422 9th Ave, Scottsbluff, NE Sun 10:15 am and Wed 7:30 pm

WestWay Christian Church 1701 W. 27th St Scottsbluff NE Sun 10:15am

Zion Evangelical Church 3617 5th Ave Scottsbluff NE Sun 8:30am 10:30am

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This Day in History

This historical photo and story was posted by Legacy of the Plains Museum.

On this day, over a century ago, one of the first trains rolled into the burgeoning city of Gering. While it is unclear which train was actually the first, this one is certainly among them, and it represents another technology that would completely transform western Nebraska.

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Festival of Hope Fundraiser

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Scanner Expansion

Please welcome our new brand… PANHANDLE SCANNER!

We have been providing expanded coverage for outlying areas for a long time. Even from the beginning, people from all over have followed our page. In fact, less than 1/2 of our followers are from Scotts Bluff County. The rest are found all over Nebraska, Colorado and 37 other states.

The scanner began originally in 2009 and has always stayed focused on 5 primary categories of news and alerts; Police and Crime, Fire and Rescue, Severe Weather, Missing Persons, and Safety Alerts.

With our expanded coverage area, we are able to provide local news for the entire panhandle and eastern Wyoming on one page, rather than trying to maintain individual pages for all the smaller counties.

We have individual county pages, and we will continue them, but we are seeking volunteer admins from the surrounding areas that are interested in managing their county.

We will write more about the changes in future issues of the recap.

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Seeking Black Challenger Driver

Scanner Chatter heated up around 10:20 pm with eye-witness accounts of an accident.

“There’s an accident over by the Westco baseball field. Looks like a black challenger lost control and hit some parked cars at a residence.” – Kenzey

“Just had a drone up in that area.” – Teresa

“About 5 staties over there too. It was a black challenger that slammed into a parked truck on Avenue P.” – Eric

If you know anything about this accident or who it might have been, please contact police.

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Featured Photography

If you have AMAZING professional grade photos to show off to the world, join our group The Great American Experience!

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Nebraska State Patrol

This extra wide load went down the road (I-80) Saturday night. The Nebraska State Patrol gave everyone a heads up on facebook in this post.

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R&C Welding Fabrication & Crane

This is one of the best companies in the area to work for… R&C Welding, Fabrication and Crane!

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Scanner Traffic

Keeping up with this scanner requires some serious nutrition. #EatBeef

Thank you to our highly valuable citizen eye-witnesses that report to us! … and thanks for always being safe and yielding to emergency personnel.

As many have noticed, we have expanded our coverage to include much of WyoBraska (Eastern Wyoming + Western Nebraska) with scanner pages and partners throughout the two states.

If you are interested in helping record scanner traffic for our daily Recaps, email sbcoscanner@gmail.com.

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Kendell Henderson Agency, Inc

It’s never too late to protect your loved ones. Stop in today and we can show you how!

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Dogs Found in Sidney & Chadron

Welcome to the new scanner dogpound. Most agencies will delete or update their posts, so we will do the same as they do.

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#10codes  ||  Back to Top

Nebraska 10-Codes

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Scotts Bluff County CERT

The Scotts Bluff County CERT/SAR Team will be hosting a basic CERT training, October 27 & 28. Friday night training starts at 6:00 pm till 10:00. Saturday training is from 7:30am – 6:30. Lunch and supper is provided on Saturday. The cost is free and it will allow you to take care of yourself, family, & neighbors in the event of an emergency.

Training covers:
Disaster Preparedness
Fire Safety
Light Search and Rescue
Damage Assessment
First Aid – Stop the Bleed
CERT Team Organization
Disaster Psychology
Disaster Drill

This training is to help get our team membership back up, we would like to see 20 citizens take this training and then join the team. We need a minimum of 10 people to hold the class.

If you are interested in taking the training please contact Bob Hessler at 308-631-0076 or safetyline@gmail.com

Help your community out and join Scotts Bluff CERT/SAR Team.

The CERT Team does things in the community, running first aid/hydration tent at events, work the Scotts Bluff County Fair.

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Local Business Spotlight

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Back The Blue

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Local Jail Inmate Search

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Nebraska State Inmate Search

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Sex Offender Registry Search

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

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Look Who’s Hiring!

R&C Welding is hiring.

YMCA is hiring.

Alliance Police Department in hiring.

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Nebraska State Patrol is hiring.

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Main Street Market is hiring.

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City of Gering is hiring.

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City of Scottsbluff is hiring

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Wyoming Hemp Co is hiring

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City of Alliance is hiring

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Wyoming Highway Patrol is hiring.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

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Parent-Teacher Conferences Oct 10, 12

Triathlon Oct 14

Solar Eclipse Oct 14

Self-Defense Training Oct 14

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Puttin’ On The Glitz

Gering Bulldogs will be “Puttin’ On The Glitz” for Homecoming 2023! We invite our Bulldog community to recognize this celebratory week with us.

Friday, October 20th is Gering Alumni Night and gate entry for all Bulldog Alumni will be waived. The Gering Schools Foundation will also have a special gift to recognize all GPS Alumni in attendance!💙💛

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Mah Jongg Oct 19 & 26

Nightfall Oct 27

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Weekly Podcasts

#diggingdeeperlive  ||  Back to Top

Our weekly Live podcast is packed with a wide variety of subject matter, “leaving no stone unturned.”

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Truman’s Matrix

An original production of Hale Multimedia. Truman’s Matrix is made up of the craziest headlines from around the world. Airs LIVE Friday nights from 8:30-9:00 pm Mountain. Available anytime on diggingdeeper.us

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The Ugly Truth

Like our slogan says, hard to listen to, but impossible to ignore. This podcast explores the darkest, deepest secrets on the planet and exposes them to the light… in hopes that goodness will prevail with knowledge.