Thank you to Chadron Domino's Pizza for supporting Chadron Middle School! Domino's generously donated $854.88! Congratulations to Mrs. Hoffman's 6th grade Cardinal Block class for winning the class competition and winning a class pizza party! #GoCardsNation
Very cool! I had the (unfortunate😜) privilege of playing against her in high school…pretty sure I had to guard her as well🥴. I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone in the panhandle as good as Brooke!!
WATCH) Gering graduate and former Husker basketball player Brooke Schwartz to be honored during Scottsbluff-Gering girls basketball game tonight. (WATCH) @GeringBulldogs@gering_athletes
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I used to teach Sugihara’s story in our old reading curriculum! What an amazing person, family and story that brought on such good discussions in class!
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This is Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and his wife Yukiko. They spent 18-20 hours a day writing and signing transit visas by hand in Lithuania for thousands of Jews for 29 days from July 31 to August 28, 1940.
Yukiko described their last days in Lithuania: "He was so exhausted, like a sick person. Even though he was ordered to go to Berlin, he said he couldn't make it to Berlin and suggested we go to a hotel and rest before leaving. When we got to the hotel, the Jewish people came looking for us there. So he wrote some more visas in the hotel.
The next day when we got to the train station, they were there too. So he wrote more visas on the platform until the train left. Once we were on board, they were hanging on the windows, and he wrote some more. When the train started moving, he couldn't write anymore. Everyone was waving their hands. One of them called out, 'Thank you Mr. Sugihara, we will come to see you again,' and he came running after the train. I couldn't stop crying. When I think about it, even now, I can't help crying."
As the train left the station, Sugihara said, "Please forgive me. I cannot write anymore. I wish you the best." It is estimated that the actions undertaken by him and his wife are responsible for the present lives of around 100,000 people.
After the war, Sugihara was forced to resign and work menial jobs (selling light bulbs door to door). He languished in relative obscurity until 1968 when an Israeli diplomat managed to find him and finally got him the recognition that he deserved.
Sugihara never told anyone what he had done during the war. Even his closest friends had no idea. "I may have disobeyed my government, but if I didn't, I would be disobeying God. In life, do what's right because it's right, and leave it alone."
Big night last night for this guy!! My dad, John Binning, was inducted into the inaugural class of Hall of Fame at Scottsbluff High School!🤩
His career stared here where he coached the girls’ track team to 3 consecutive state titles!! ‘76🏆’77🏆’78🏆
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I’m probably going to regret this tweet, but here’s a call for us all in the VB community to be less destructive on social media and message boards. It’s heartbreaking to hear from parents who are near tears when reading so many hurtful things about their kids. I’m hopeful.