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AVI-SPL’s digital solutions fills need as workplace communications evolve

THIS WEEK 'S ISSUE:

by Michelle Leach

Advisors say retirement planning is a long-term, evolving focus.

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40 er d Un 40 Elgan harnesses tech to manage growth at OneWorld Community Health Centers.

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As digital workplace solutions move from an “add-on” to a “must” in the current environment, the Omaha office of Tampa, Florida-based AVI-SPL has doubled the size of its team in just north of a year, and is growing its client list irrespective of industry or organizational type. Smarter technologies are also driving business intelligence.

“We’re ensuring that no matter where you work, you’re more efficient and effective, and are able to communicate how and when you want to,” said Chris Kircher, vice president, Omaha office. “On the back end of this, we have services where, if you are a company that is global in nature and has multiple locations throughout the U.S. or the world with a lot of real estate, it would be nice to know how many conference rooms are getting used, how often people are using them, and the hardware that they’re using.”

The metro office at 10351 Continued on page 6.

Vice President, Omaha Office Chris Kircher … Local arm of global digital workplace and AV integration services provider doubles its staff size in about a year, after establishing a bricks and mortar presence (Photo by MBJ / Becky McCarville) spring 2019.

HerHeadquarters connecting women entrepreneurs to boost opportunities

by Becky McCarville

HerHeadquarters founder Carina Glover’s vision of more female billionaires, more woman-owned companies on the Forbes list and on the Fortune 500 starts with the basics — giving women entrepreneurs more access to money, brand partnerships and mentors.

What started as an app to connect women business owners has evolved, even over the past six months, to encompass the greater

needs of women who want to scale their companies.

“When I think about the needs of women entrepreneurs, it’s not just one thing that they need to reach the level of impact and power that they’re trying to reach,” Glover said. “They need access to powerful brand partnerships. They need money. They need mentorship. Everyone can throw a mentor at a woman but at some point, even with the best Continued on page 6.

Owner Brian Seely … High-value sets, hunger for at-home experiences contributes to a strong year for specialty reseller, retailer of one of the world’s most recognizable toy brands.

Bricks & Minifigs builds loyal fan base among Lego enthusiasts of all ages

by Michelle Leach

Founder Carina Glover … Positioning women to be power players in business.

When Brian Seely opened the Omaha Bricks and Minifigs store in 2017, the franchise concept had a lot going for it; the Lego product that they specialize in is a “household name,” a part of pop culture. Since that time, reality TV shows like “Lego Masters” have attracted enthusiasts to the shop. And the pandemic has further played a role in building upon promis-

ing trends for the retailer and reseller.

“People are spending much more time at home and they’re spending their discretionary income on experiences as a family,” Seely said.

“This year, they’re purchasing more expensive, larger sets that will take longer to build.

The higher-end stuff has been moving a lot quicker. So, the Continued on page 7.

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• JANUARY 8, 2021 • Midlands Business Journal

Advisors say retirement planning is a long-term, evolving focus

by Gabby Hellbusch

There comes a time when retirement must be top of mind, and experts say the sooner this happens, the better.

When it comes to retirement planning, Grant Dorhout, president of Dorhout Retirement Services, said there should be focus on income first and risk second.

“We also believe it is important to be very intentional when investing,” Dorhout said. “Simply put, allow assets to do what they are intended to do. For example, if you are trying to create income you may need more than mutual Dorhout funds only.”

He warned it’s also important to not get distracted by headlines.

“When planning for retirement, it is most important to construct a long-term, comprehensive retirement plan,” Dorhout said. “Adjustments should be goals-based, not emotionally based on what we see in the news. We must remember that by the time news is in the headlines, you’ve missed it. Headlines are only the flavor of the week and being scared into making decisions based on the headlines could impact your retirement plan negatively.”

Tami Chavez Ledger, senior retirement plan consultant at Mariner Wealth Advisors, said there’s been significant changes this past year, starting with the passage of the SECURE Act in late 2019 and then the CARES Act.

Tami Chavez Ledger, senior retirement plan consultant at Mariner Wealth Advisors.

Financial wellness is another focus and/or loans to employees from their reamong businesses, Chavez Ledger said, tirement plans, but this was a double-edged and COVID-19 definitely impacted the sword because it gave workers access to industry in 2020 in this regard. accounts that are meant for retirement.”

“Many workers are feeling financial Some people who took loans or disstress, which in turn, can make them less tributions from their retirement accounts productive at work,” Chavez Ledger said. will potentially never be able to replace “Early shutdowns across the country that money for retirement. exposed how fragile for many American “Those of us in the retirement industry workers not only retirement savings is but may have the chance to influence how peosavings in general. Many workers were ple live in retirement,” she said. “When I unable to make ends meet when furloughed meet with employees one-on-one, I focus or laid off due to insufficient emergency on one item each of them can control — savings. The CARES Act gave employers their savings rate. Increasing the amount the option of allowing certain distributions an employee allocates to his or her 401(k)

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account can have the biggest impact on retirement savings. Employers also can influence savings through the retirement plan with features like auto-enrollment and auto-escalate. I also stress how important it is to not borrow from, or touch, a retirement account. It’s not a savings account to be used as an emergency fund.”

Earl Johnson, senior vice president/ wealth manager at Evergreen Capital Management, said the marketplace is continuously evolving, so too should o n e ’s s t r a t e g y t o grow and preserve the assets necessary to secure a comfortJohnson able retirement.

“Getting a handle on the real cost of retirement along with the strain of preparing yourself to live on a fixed income will continue to be part of the moving targets that are preparing for retirement,” Johnson said. “In our business, when paid attention to, the basic blocking and tackling of financial planning should normally prevail when it comes to preparing for financial success. But many forces that seem to have less to do with this relationship have been introduced in the last several years, be it web based investment providers, or the wealth of financial information that we are bombarded with on such a regular basis. All of this new technology will have a home with some investors, but it is my view that when the job needs to be done right or when success is much too important, there is a large group of people who will always seek the help of a professional.”

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Elgan harnesses tech to manage growth at OneWorld Community Health Centers

by Dwain Hebda Under Elgan’s astute direction, the organizaGrowing up, Steve Elgan discovered an tion’s IT crew transformed OneWorld from a reearly aptitude for technology. active approach to a proactive, standards-based “When I was about 15, my mom was getting learning organization. His work successfully her associate’s degree in a technical field,” he implemented lean concepts to OneWorld’s IT said. “After she would complete a class, I would system, improved network quality, reduced lead go do the same coursework because I really liked time and removed unplanned work. it. I would basically do her assignments for fun.”

“We had to make sure our applications Years later, as director of IT for OneWorld would run well across the internet, which they Community Health Centers, Elgan would didn’t before,” he said. “We introduced virtuleverage his considerable technical expertise alization technologies into the organization, by helping the organization manage which didn’t exist when I started. We explosive growth over the course of leveraged Citrix products that allow his 10-year tenure. us to build applications to any user on “When I started here, we had four any device, anywhere in the world, so locations, there was one other person long as they have internet. on the department besides myself and “We also had to grow our Wide we had about 200 staff, only about 7% Area Network footprint. Going from of whom worked from a remote locafour locations to 16, we have a lot tion,” he said. “We had a hodgepodge of users leveraging internet types of of different computers and makes and connectivity. Not all applications will 2020 models to deliver our applications. work well with that kind of connecThere were next to no standards, if you will. tivity, which is why Citrix came in and was an "I recognized pretty early on the need to important piece to that application delivery.” start getting things standardized and having a Arguably the biggest payoff of the enhanced consistent way to deliver applications to our system came this year when OneWorld continusers, because we knew we were going to be ued to operate with minimal disruption. growing pretty rapidly. So, fast forward to today “Our team didn’t really have to do much to and we are 550 staff, 16 locations and about 40% pivot,” Elgan said. “Even though we suddenly of our staff works remotely. We’ve scaled a lot.” had a bunch of staff who had to work from home

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“That’s where my focus is going to be. We Elgan, who graduated in 2005 from the Pe- have a very good foundation in place for how ter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska we’re tackling scaling out to more sites by at Omaha with a degree in management systems, leveraging technologies, such as SD-WAN, so said the future of his work with OneWorld lies that it’s more reliable. I think automation that’s in continued refinement to meet additional going to be huge for us. We’ve been doing it, challenges. but we want to do a lot more of it.”

“You can never really have too much stanElgan has been routinely decorated for his dardization and predictability, in terms of how work within technology circles. Among his you’re delivering your equipment and your appli- accolades are as Citrix Technology Advocate cations to your users,” he said. “There are things 2018-2020 and multiple CUGCY Awards, that we can do in terms of introducing additional presented by Citrix.

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Law Firms A section prepared by the staff of the Midlands Business Journal

January 8, 2020

Flurry of changes support legal community, the clients they serve in tumultuous times

by Michelle Leach

The Midlands legal community is adapting to educate clients on the additional obligations and vulnerabilities that have been presented in 2020.

“It is important to recall that employers do, in fact, still have obligations under the ADA and OSHA regulations, including but, of course, not limited to … employee privacy related to COVID-19 issues, maintaining a safe workplace and recordkeeping,” said Lamson Dugan & Murray Attorney Eric Tiritilli.

Tiritilli The firm has responded by hosting numerous remote presentations.

“We have covered employers’ obligations under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA); OSHA issues related to COVID-19 and CARES Act provisions,” Tiritilli said.

The resources center on its website provides information on employment, business issues, workers’ comp and other areas.

“Because of the uncertainty caused by COVID-19, it is possible to overlook the effects that a well-intentioned policy may have on employees,” Tiritilli added.

By discussing how things are working with employees, he said it’s possible to make shifts that benefits the employee and

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Roxana Cortés-Mills, rural capacity building managing attorney at the Immigrant Legal Center. align with the business’s legal responsibil- 2020 and asked the Court to extend the ities and goals. exemption through 2021.

Nebraska State Bar Association Ex“We’ve worked with the Nebraska State ecutive Director Liz Neeley referred to Bar Foundation to make CLE Scholarships a number of pandemic-related effects on available to lawyers who need financial member-firms’ businesses. assistance in meeting their mandatory CLE “Law firm operations have become obligations,” Neeley said. “We’ve taken more challenging as they work to comply best practices from across the country and with health directives and city ordinanc- disseminated a ‘Re-opening Your Practice: es, protect staff and clients, and stay Considerations from the Nebraska State abreast of their obligations as employers,” Bar Association’ checklist to assist firms she said. with their re-opening plans, which is also Practicing remotely had challenged available on the NSBA website.” the protection of client data. Furthermore, Perhaps now more than ever, members practicing via technology or in-person with need help connecting with potential climasks and social distancing can, Neeley ents. So, she said, the NSBA voted to make said, make it harder to ID facial cues, body profiles to the Nebraska Find-a-Lawyer language, and responses. referral website free to all members.

“Initially, the pandemic created a “We offered a series of pandemsharp increase in labor and employment ic-specific CLE to help law firms be work as businesses sought assistance with better equipped to answer both client understanding their obligations as employ- questions and their own questions about ers and rapidly changing directives and the fast-moving changes to the laws in regulations,” she said. “There has been a response to the pandemic,” Neeley said. reported decline in personal injury work “We continue working with partners and (with fewer elective surgeries and fewer sections to provide COVID-19 related CLE motor vehicle accidents taking place). content, and we developed a COVID-19 We anticipate an uptick in mergers and Resource Webpage to help our members acquisitions, and we have heard that firms navigate our rapidly changing legal landare exploring additional practice areas in scape.” response to the pandemic in the areas of Additionally, Neeley said they continue bankruptcy and collections.” to offer its Nebraska Lawyers Assistance NSBA has supported the Nebraska Project services for attorneys, judges and Supreme Court’s exemption of live con- law students in need of support during the tinuing legal education (CLE) hours for pandemic (to deal with stress, addiction

and mental health concerns).

“We have even adapted our pro bono opportunities by helping to establish a legal clinic known as the Tenant Assistance Project, to assist Nebraskans dealing with evictions,” she said.

Nebraska’s largest immigration legal services nonprofit, the Immigrant Legal Center (ILC), provided information on its website related to the likes of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s moratorium on evictions through Dec. 31. An official declaration Neeley that tenants must sign is available in a dozen languages, and resources in Spanish are also posted under its “news” section.

Recently, ILC leadership highlighted the distinction between a nonprofit law firm and private attorneys; legal services are reportedly provided for low-income immigrants — regardless of the complexity of its clients’ immigration legal needs.

“I’m very glad that we are able to represent our clients to the fullest extent, regardless of what their economic needs are,” said Rural Capacity Building Managing Attorney Roxana Cortés-Mills.

She referred to a question of court authority that eventually led to the need to appeal. At other firms, Cortés-Mills questioned if the money would have been an obstacle to engaging in an appeal.

“All I had to figure out is if there is an issue we could appeal and if the client wanted to appeal,” she said. “So, we were able to take those cases up to the Nebraska Supreme Court, regardless of what the resources were. And ILC allows us and encourages the attorneys to take the case as far as we need to take it to defend our clients and to give our clients equal access to courts and to give the best possible outcome.”

ILC, for instance, featured the story of Roberto who sought refuge in the United States after being abandoned by his father in El Salvador, and so he could reunite with his mother. Cortés-Mills recalled how the case took three to four years for Roberto to file for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and obtain his green card (lawful permanent resident card).

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In evolving job market, law schools adapt to best serve students

by Gabby Hellbusch

Undoubtedly, education has been significantly impacted over the course of the past year, and this has been no different for the law sector, which has pivoted to meet the needs of students in a changing job market.

Even with the healthy growth rate for the industry, Susanne Miller, assistant professor and director of the legal studies program at College of Saint Mary, said recent law school graduates Miller are finding competition in the job market, as there are more graduates annually than available attorney positions.

“The outlook is good for paralegal students who attend an ABA-approved program, such as the AA, BA or post-baccalaureate certificate program at College of Saint Mary, because employers understand the rigorous approval process that the ABA has put in place,” she said.

Law schools are getting more creative with curriculum delivery and some have piloted programs, allowing a cohort of first year students to begin their studies in the spring semester rather than the traditional Fall semester start.

According to Miller, the current political and social landscape, appointment of multiple U.S. Supreme Court Justices during President Trump’s time in office and especially the death

of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has made the draw to the study of law more attractive to students.

“It is unclear how long this interest or the corresponding increase in enrollment will continue, but it is not anticipated that there will be a significant spike in the near future,” Miller said.

Joshua Fershée, dean and professor of law at Creighton University School of Law, said the current job market for lawyers Everman is in a state of flux.

“Hiring has remained steady, and after an initial downturn at the beginning of the pandemic, many areas of the law have seen business rebound or grow,” he said. “Areas like intellectual property, cybersecurity and employment law have been strong, and other areas, such as bankruptcy, property, health care and energy/environmental law are expected to be growth areas.”

Across most sectors, Fershée said the legal job market remains steady, but employers will likely remain cautious as the global health situation continues to evolve.

“Trends in legal education, as one might expect, track the job market, with increasing interest in multidisciplinary areas,” he said. “At Creighton Law, recognizing these trends, we recently added concentrations in international law, health care law and sports

law, with energy/environmental law under consideration, as well. In addition, experiential learning, through clinical experiences and externships, which allow students to work with in live legal settings serving real clients are more often part of legal education.”

Tasha Everman, assistant dean and director of career development at the University of Nebraska College of Law, said Nebraska Law has moved to a hybrid model for the 2020-2021 academic year.

“When I first started in this industry, I heard the maxim that ‘employment law is recession proof,’” she said. “The reason being that people are either hiring or firing and, either way they need legal counsel. I have generally found this to be true with our students seeking positions in employment

law areas. With the disruption in the retail market and the numbers of small businesses bearing the brunt of the stay-at-home orders, the field of bankruptcy is preparing for an upsurge, which will continue into the coming year.”

At the law school, Everman said there’s also been more inquiries than usual for lateral attorneys in the cyber law arena.

“It seems that as more of our lives move online, we are more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks and privacy breaches,” she said.

“Perhaps one of the most interesting realizations to come out of the pandemic in the legal industry is just how many lawyers are able to perform their jobs remotely without missing a beat. The long-term ramifications of this are unknown as yet but are potentially huge.”

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AVI-SPL’s digital solutions fills need as workplace communications evolve Continued from page 1.

Portal Road is among 50-plus global locations for the 42-year-old organization, which designs, integrates, manages and supports onsite and cloudbased communications and collaboration technologies.

“What we’re seeing globally is, ‘Let’s bring AV in a little bit earlier,’” Kircher said. “And, related to that and especially

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in today’s environment, there is this notion that AV has to be a capital expense.”

He described their approach as “AV-asa-Service,” akin to Software-as-a-Service, as an operational expense.

“Instead of purchasing equipment that you’ll tear out and sell at a loss, your upfront expenditure can be way lower and you can build it into the operational budget,” Kircher said. “The equipment can be refreshed and, at the end of the agreement in three or four years, you aren’t stuck with a bunch of equipment.”

Formerly, communications technologies decisions were made by facilities folks.

“AV was kind of looked at as an afterthought or an ‘add-on,’” he said. “If you look now at what organizations are using to communicate, you’ve got digital signage and scheduling where you can schedule a room on your computer and video conference, and that is integrating with AV. The rooms now have a meeting setup where you don’t touch a button and that meeting will start.”

Formerly, users might walk into a room with new teleconferencing equipment and have no idea how to operate it — the meeting started late, if at all.

“Now there are sensors in the meeting room,” he said, noting that meetings are triggered automatically without having to fumble on equipment.

Features such as “sound masking” aid in privacy.

“In the digital workplace, you’re seeing things move from a facilities- to an ITbased decision,” he said. “All of this stuff is coming together in a way that is beyond ‘hanging a monitor.’”

Since Kircher started with the firm in September 2019, five months shy of the local office ribbon-cutting, the Omaha team has grown from seven to 14 employees.

“Nonprofits, for-profits, higher education, all of them have a need for the kinds of products and services that we provide,” he said.

The need has been ramped-up by COVID-19.

“Companies have moved to remote working environment where people are working offsite or learning offsite,” Kircher said. “Needs really dovetail with the types of products and services that we provide.”

Additionally, Kircher noted that clients are looking at how to monitor employees; for instance, temperature-taking technol-

ogy at entrances, and contactless or minimal-contract systems within conference rooms that feature fewer or no buttons to press.

Kircher also emphasized how AVI-SPL is “agnostic” about platforms and vendors to facilitate remote communications.

“If a company has been migrating toward a Teams platform but employees see value in Zoom, we can help the company adopt both platforms,” he said, as an example.

While the sectors they serve are vast, AVI-SPL got its start in the Omaha market in the health care arena a few years prior to the opening of a bricks and mortar location via its work with UNMC’s iEXCEL,

described as a “transformative model for health care education, training and research.”

“It was a multi-year project,” he said.

“We worked on a lot of the technology that you see in the center, the huge video wall, virtual reality, and holographic technology.”

While AVI-SPL had taken on a similar type of project in Detroit, Kircher said iEXCEL represents the company’s first exposure to Omaha.

“The company saw what a lot of others see about the Omaha area; here is a vibrant, economically successful, diverse environment and there are lots of good businesses headquartered here,” he said.

As the world’s largest AV integrator, Kircher said, many major stateside markets were covered.

“But if you look at the Heartland, and the areas that the Omaha office serves (which include Nebraska and Iowa, Kansas and Missouri), there was sort of a gap in the geography that we covered,” he said, adding there was “a lot of opportunity” in the market.

In addition to the ability to service local clients, Kircher noted the office can pull specialized expertise from other offices.

“We have groups that specialize in stadiums and put in scoreboards,” he said.

“Others focus on casinos. We have all this Continued on next page.

HerHeadquarters connecting women entrepreneurs to boost opportunities Continued from page 1. mentors you’re going to hit a brick wall because you need money to implement the things that they’re mentoring you to do.”

Since COVID-19 hit, the brand partnership

HerHeadquarters Services: woman-focused brand partnership platform with a national user base Founded: January 2018; app launched June 2019 Employees: 2, along with outsourced marketing and development teams Goals: Expand the executive team, launch in international markets and raise at least $1 million with its first official seed round.

Industry outlook: Giving underserved and underrepresented entrepreneurs access to partnerships, money and mentors so they can scale their business is critical to leveling the playing field and creating more female power players.

Website: herheadquarters.app

platform has experienced a “surge” in its user base. Many of the industries it caters to — fashion companies, PR agencies, marketing companies, venues, photography studios, beauty salons and spas — were deemed nonessential and were required to shut down at least in the early stages of the pandemic and some continuing since, leaving owners to figure out how to continue to grow their companies.

“Now we have over 1,000 users from across the country,” she said. “Our user base is very diverse — we have women who started a business six months ago all the way up to women who own multimillion-dollar businesses for 10-plus years.”

Brand partnerships have the power to open doors yet are underestimated, Glover said, adding that she herself underestimated the value with an event planning company she founded after graduating from college. Major national and international brands use partnerships as part of a growth strategy.

“Sometimes people hear the word partnership or brand partnership, and they think business-to-influencer and that’s not what we are,” she said. “We are an app where our entire platform is exclusive to women-owned businesses and the women who run them and so in that way, the connections that are made on our platform are made between decision makers.”

When users join the app, they answer a short quiz to determine the types of collaboration, industries, local or national partnerships, types of media exposure and more. She said

she was surprised to find that nine out of 10 partnerships that happen on the platform are between women in different cities.

Currently, women entrepreneurs from 19 international cities are requesting HerHeadquarters to expand into their country so they can use the app.

“I thought, what about the women who are looking to scale their business and looking for success outside of their ZIP code … outside of their area code? That really blew me away,” she said. “We have a big opportunity to scale. At the start of 2019 we had only launched in six cities but once COVID hit we opened up our app nationwide and we now have users from over 50 U.S. cities and a wait list of women entrepreneurs from women from over 10 countries.”

A full-service salon owner in Houston posted on HerHeadquarters that she was looking to partner with a woman-owned business within the beauty industry within a two-to-three week-timeframe to create spa kits and sell them on her website. She connected with a woman who owns a skincare line in San Francisco.

“Those two women … didn’t know each other prior to HerHeadquarters, came together, formed that partnership, created limited edition spa day kits and sold them to their customers,” she said.

Not only did both businesses garner sales, but they also were able to cross-promote to reach more customers in different states.

“I was really happy to hear that the partnership was secured and that they found a way to make money even though their doors were physically closed,” she said.

Glover started HerHeadquarters with a vision of giving women opportunities to connect and grow their companies via brand partnerships. With a degree in PR and advertising, she didn’t know how to navigate the tech industry, so she started emailing potential investors and eventually connected with The Startup Collaborative co-founder Erica Wassinger.

“I wasn’t a designer … I went to school for PR and advertising, so tech was completely foreign to me,” she said. “I knew I needed a lot of guidance — I didn’t know where to start and prior to connecting with them, I was doing all the right things in the wrong order.”

Now with two employees and a team of contractors for marketing and developing, her goal is to raise the company’s first official seed round this year.

“I would like to raise at least a million dollars for the company so we can really do things that we haven’t been able to do before because of a lack of budget or not having the budget to support the initiatives that we want to do,” she said. “I would also like to identify

an international market that we can launch in and start doing that. I’m expecting and planning and preparing for 2021 to be our biggest growth year since launching.”

With a successful raise, she expects around 10-15,000 users by the end of the year.

Glover’s goals extend beyond HerHeadquarters. Her overall objective is to empower women in business.

To celebrate the company’s one-year anniversary, this past June it virtually hosted The Power Player’s Conference, featuring top female founders, investors and experts in business, and earned $4,000. HerHeadquarters gifted a $750 business grant to a business that did not exceed $500,000 in revenue. In November 2020, for Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, the company gifted a $1,500 grant to a woman-owned business.

“We had over 600 applicants [for the November grant],” she said. “It made me excited, but it also weighed heavy on my heart because it made me see there’s so many women in need.

For HerHeadquarters, the app is the forefront of our brand, but I also want to be a company that’s very intentional about positioning women to be power players in business both on the forefront and behind the scenes and I want to make sure that putting money in their pockets is a part of how we support them.”

Glover was recently selected as a recipient of the American Express and IFundWomen of Color’s 100 for 100 program and received a $25,000 grant along with 100 days of resources to help grow her business.

She also was invited to participate in the annual Congressional Startup Day in August — one of three founders selected from Nebraska — to talk about her experiences as an entrepreneur. The meeting was held at Congressman Don Bacon’s office, where Glover proposed the Disadvantaged Entrepreneur Act, identifying a “disadvantaged entrepreneur” as a woman, minority, or first-time founder; in addition, he/ she may have a credit score lower than 50 or live in a low-income area.

“I proposed that any financial institution receiving government funding should be required to disburse a percentage of funding (rather business loans or grants) to disadvantaged entrepreneurs,” she said. “This would allow new, disadvantaged business owners to have an opportunity to be successful. After working as a loan officer for over a year while in the early development stages of building HerHeadquarters, I came across too many people who had a great work ethic and an even greater idea that was killed in seed-stage because they didn’t have access to the capital that would have given them a real chance at starting or growing a business.”

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Bricks & Minifigs builds loyal fan base among Lego enthusiasts of all ages In fact, he spoke with collector-entreContinued from page 1. a v e r a g e s a l e i s u p h u g e c o m p a r e d preneurs in town. And the familiar refrain was, “Very rarely does anyone bring in to last year.”

Founded in 2009, Bricks and Minifigs Legos,” or “Stuff comes in but it’s not our began franchising two years later. On the niche.”

“From when we opened in October heels of its fourth holiday season, the 2017 until late fall Omaha store at 2449 and even now, the S. 132nd now joins Bricks & Minifigs Omaha primary focus was a family of 35 other Phone: 884-6323 on used sets and used stores in 17 states and Address: 2449 S. 132nd St., Omaha mini-figures,” said one in Canada offer68144 Seely from his store, ing consumers the Services: buy, sell and trade used and new amid the holiday ability to buy, sell or Lego pieces and sets rush. “People would trade-in new and used Website: bricksandminifigs.com/Omaha-ne bring them in and Lego pieces and sets. trade them in. And When Seely first started to do due diligence on the brand in in last November, we signed an agreement 2016, he said there were around 25 or 30 with Lego. So, that was a major accomplishment. We’re starting to be a distributor franchises.

“I called a vast majority of them,” he … Now, we have much more dealings with the new sets and new products.” said.

A nod both to the motivations behind Earlier in the year, Seely had taken notice of Facebook ads from Bricks and selecting the franchise and its differentiMinifigs, which were looking for franchi- ators, Seely noted how its “competition” was limited to Amazon. sees as they expanded their locations.

“But they are competitors for selling “I’ve always been a Star Wars collector,” he said. “It was a totally unique idea the new stuff,” he said. “When it comes to the used aspect, there is virtually no that no one else was doing.”

Federally funded food box program critical for charities during the pandemic has been extended through April

by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

A federal program that has provided boxes of fresh food to charities facing long lines of hungry people during the coronavirus pandemic has Charity been extended through April, offering a lifeline as the economy struggles to recover and unemployment remains high.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it will purchase $1.5 billion of food for the Families to Farmers Food Box Program. The funding was included in the COVID-19 relief package signed into law last month, just as the program was set to end and food banks were raising concerns about food supply amid a growing need.

The agency last year spent $4 billion on four rounds of the program, which launched in May and was included in the

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The resource-rich company allows for independence among local offices; for instance, employees are encouraged to select a local cause to support over a 30-day period over its fall month of service.

Readers may also recognize Kircher for his service on the boards of several community and state organizations, and as a former senior manager in corporate affairs and corporate communications with Conagra Brands.

“We moved here from New York back in 2002,” he said. “We really came to love Omaha and our kids were raised here. So, we wanted to stay.”

original COVID-19 relief legislation. It said some 3.3 billion meals have been distributed.

Under the program, USDA works with food distributors across the country to buy fresh meat, dairy and produce from farmers and assemble them into boxes that are delivered to food pantries and other charities. Deliveries for the latest round will begin shortly after contracts are awarded this month and continue through the end of April.

In addition to providing a consistent source of fresh food to people seeking aid from food pantries, the program helps farmers and distributors whose business has been hurt by the reduced demand from restaurants, hotels and other institutions forced to close or curtail operations to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The new round has some changes.

Food boxes can include precooked seafood products and a greater variety of cheeses — blue, Gouda, Gruyere, Parmesan, provolone and others — in addition to cheddar.

The extension of the food box program was among several efforts to address hunger in the latest COVID-19 relief legislation. Families who receive aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, will see a 15% increase in benefits through June.

Anti-hunger advocates had been pressing Congress to raise the SNAP benefits level and extend the food box program.

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competition in town.”

Furthermore, the sheer size of the market was appealing.

“There are people who get into [Lego] in their 40s and 50s,” he said. “The modern brick that is manufactured today is still compatible with the brick that has been around for 60, 65 years.”

Derived from “leg godt,” Danish for “good play,” the Lego Group was founded in 1932. Bricks were originally made from wood. A special type of plastic has been used to make Lego bricks since the 1960s, due to its resistance to warping, discoloration, and damage from heat and other factors.

“A lot of people assume that it’s a toy for kids,” he said. “But so many adults do it.”

In fact, adult fans of Lego (known as “AFOLs”) have been profiled in A Lego Brickumentary.

From animated movies to cartoon series, entertainment media has further spurred interest in Lego.

“One thing that really has helped us is last winter before the pandemic hit Fox had a TV show called Lego Masters,” Seely said. “That was a competition-based show on Lego and Bricks and Minifigs did paid advertising during that. It was marketing directed exactly to our customers.”

He looks forward to the show coming back.

“We’re not just in the business of selling Lego per se,” he said. “We’re also in the business of letting kids be kids and letting creativity flow.”

Throughout the pandemic, Seely said more customers have been calling and asking about specific items after noting that the big box stores are “sold out of pretty much everything,” due to supply chain issues.

“We are truly a one-stop Lego superstore,” he said. “We do all the new and used individual bricks and pieces all the way up to several thousand-piece sets.”

The mega-stores may only have the top 60 UPCs at a given time.

“We pride ourselves in having the older sets that you can’t find at the corner store,” Seely said.

Bricks and Minifigs has adapted its model to offer services such as curbside pickup, online orders and delivery in the wake of COVID-19.

Also, for its bulk tables, Seely said they ask masked visitors to wear gloves and maintain social distancing.

“We used to host 12 to 15 birthday parties a month that would bring people in who had never been here before,” he said.

“This year, we’ve had four birthday parties in the last nine months. So, that’s one thing that has been a negative aspect. Birthday parties are very profitable for us.”

In fact, Seely recalled how guests would pick up items after the party. These events almost operated as part of its “marketing strategy.”

Toward the latter half of the new year, as more people are vaccinated, he anticipates parties will resume.

“Lego is the No. 1 toy company in the world,” Seely said. “We are kind of lucky in that sense.”

In September, the Lego Group reported that consumer sales grew 14% in the first half of 2020 (compared to the same time

period year prior).

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YouTube has gone from Hollywood pariah to partner. Meet the executive who led the change

by Wendy Lee

When Kelly Merryman arrived at YouTube six years ago, the dust had just cleared on a contentious $1-billion lawsuit with Viacom that had dragged on for years.

The New York Entrepreneurs cable television giant complained that Google's YouTube had knowingly allowed its users to post Viacom videos, including clips from "South Park" and "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," on its site without permission.

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lighted the fraught relations YouTube had with media companies that viewed the vast video sharing site as a competitor that profited off unauthorized clips of their popular shows.

"There was more trust that needed to be built," said Merryman, YouTube's vice president of content partnerships.

Since then, Merryman has worked tirelessly to change Hollywood's perception of YouTube from pariah to partner. She's persuaded media companies to use the vast reach of YouTube to promote their shows and films.

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which takes in revenue from ads placed on the videos and shares that money with partners.

The growing ties, deemed unfathomable 15 years ago, have strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic, as studios have increasingly relied on YouTube to lure younger audiences to new streaming platforms.

Studios including NBCUniversal used YouTube as one of the digital platforms for releasing more than 10 paid video-on-demand titles in 2020, including "Trolls World Tour." The Trolls movie brought in $95 million during its first three weeks in online sales across a variety of platforms, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment.

"We've gone from the platform that made them no money and they were suing to the platform that is paying out massive amounts of money and lots of usage for them," said Robert Kyncl, YouTube's chief business officer. "Kelly is right in the center of all of this."

The 44-year-old former Netflix executive oversees a team of more than 300 people in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, including staffers who work with hundreds of content partners. She lives in Manhattan Beach and, until the pandemic struck, worked out of the historic Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista, where Google has established an expanding presence in Southern California.

Part of her role is to serve as a bridge between media partners and other aspects of YouTube. Her team works with product, engineering, operations and marketing colleagues at YouTube.

"What I found at YouTube as well as my time at Netflix is nothing is a substitute for sitting with your partners and understanding their concerns, their ideas, the areas in which you can be helpful to them," Merryman said.

Merryman, who served in a variety of executive roles before landing her current job, has a background in finance. Growing up in Houston, she loved theater, performing as a dancer in "Singin' in the Rain" in high school. But Merryman says she wasn't a triple threat and found her calling on the business side of entertainment. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a finance degree and worked as a consultant at Bain & Co. "I sort of very quickly recognized that I didn't want to be the person just creating the slides that helped someone else change their organization, " Merryman said. "I wanted to be the change."

She later went to Harvard Business School for her MBA and became an executive director of digital services and distribution at Sony in 2004. Three years later, she became vice president of content acquisition at Netflix.

At Netflix, she developed a knack for translating what the streamer was doing in a way that traditional media companies would understand. A decade ago, when Netflix was trying to get more TV shows on its platform, Merryman was instrumental in brokering a deal with Warner Bros., said Kyncl, who worked with her at Netflix.

Merryman also saw an invaluable opportunity for Netflix to expand globally.

When she told her boss, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, that she planned to focus on international growth full-time, he supported the idea but warned her that she would lose her job if it didn't work out, Merryman recalled. Her bet paid off.

"Kelly was so perfect for Netflix in those early days," Sarandos, who last year also became Netflix's co-chief executive, said in a statement. "She is smart, curious and a hard working problem solver, and in those days it was all new and full of problems."

Kyncl recruited her for her current job in late 2014.

"I knew that I needed somebody like that who's strategic and who's an operator to come into our fast-growing business," Kyncl said.

One of Merryman's first tasks was to deepen YouTube's relationship with the biggest and most powerful studio, the Walt Disney Co. Like many studios, Disney was concerned about how YouTube managed videos that included pirated content. Merryman addressed those concerns by touting Google's technology, including ContentID, that flags unauthorized content for media partners and allows them to choose whether to take those videos down or profit from ads placed on them. Companies can sometimes benefit from those unauthorized videos: For example, when fans post sing-along videos of Frozen's "Let It Go," it increases the value of the brand, she said.

During discussions over YouTube's live TV service in 2016, Disney wondered whether YouTube could make it easier for viewers to find all of ESPN's live events playing at a given time, recalled Justin Connolly, president of platform distribution for Disney.

YouTube TV did not have that feature at its launch, but Merryman tasked a group from her team to explore the idea, Connolly said.

"How is it that as a consumer you can actually choose between 12 to 20 different options all on a single screen that sits in front of you?" Connolly said. "That's not something that everybody can do and figure out. It was a good example of... bringing the creativity of an executive who understands what it is we're trying to create."

Partnerships with Disney and other media companies have helped boost YouTube's profile and generate more money for the company.

YouTube made $15 billion in ad revenue in 2019, up 36% from 2018, Google parent Alphabet has reported. Its partners have also been crucial to YouTube expanding its live TV offering, YouTube TV, which has more than 3 million subscribers and more than 85 networks, including ABC, FOX and CNN. YouTube has a massive global audience, with more than 1 billion hours of video watched on its platform each day. When the pandemic hit, YouTube's viewership skyrocketed and it became a haven for media companies looking to expand and connect with their audiences as productions shut down or scaled back.

Late-night hosts pivoted to filming themselves at home, sharing interviews on YouTube. YouTube organized two interviews with "The Daily Show's" Trevor Noah and infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, driving more than 18 million views.

Movies set to open exclusively in theaters, like "Trolls World Tour," were instead simultaneously distributed on platforms including YouTube.

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Diary of a miss: Coronavirus lesson of humility for professional investors

by Evan Ramstad

At the start of an annual gathering of professional investors in December, Jim Paulsen — the Minneapolis market analyst whose humor and knack Investing for clarity has given him a national profile — brought up the elephant in the room.

He and other market watchers, he said, underestimated the economic and financial risks of the coronavirus as it rippled out from China in the first two months of 2020.

"We could have all decided that what we saw in China was nasty, and we could have decided that that really is going to make a mess here in the United States," Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Leuthold Group, said at the Star Tribune's annual Investors Roundtable.

Just as with TV sportscasters predicting winners before a game, the air of precision in short-term stock market analysis and forecasts often turns out to be simply air.

No market watcher could have predicted the bust and boom of unprecedented speed that happened in 2020. Stocks lost one-third of their value in late February and early March and were back at record high levels at the end of the year.

But unlike sportscasters, the analysis by investment professionals has real-world consequences. Larry Kudlow, economic adviser to President Donald Trump, at a White House meeting in late January "couldn't square" the warnings health officials presented about the coronavirus with absence of stock market reaction, the New Yorker reported recently.

"Is all the money dumb?" Kudlow reportedly asked.

Most investors ended 2020 in better shape than they began, but some of their money managers and advisers feel a nagging sense they could have done a better job.

"What bothers me is some crises just hap-

pen out of the blue, but this really wasn't that way," Paulsen said in an interview last week.

"There were at least 30 days before this became an issue in the U.S. to look and ask, 'What do you think about this?' " he said.

"And I certainly said, 'Ah, it's just another health thing going on in the world somewhere. I don't think it's going to be a big deal.'

And yet there was pretty glaring evidence that it was a real big deal."

The coronavirus shocked people in all walks of life all over the world, first by eroding their sense of control, as many natural disasters do, and then by persisting, which is different from most disasters. Throughout 2020, the virus forced people to readjust their thinking about how it would affect and endanger them.

Joleen Hadrich, an agriculture economist for the University of Minnesota extension service, recognized the potential for big problems sooner than most people in part because her work involves animal disease and she has colleagues in China. In January, when the first reports of the coronavirus emerged, Hadrich took cleaning wipes onto an airplane during a business trip.

Now, she laughs at the limit of her imagination. "I worried about getting sick," she said. "But I had no idea that the world would shut down."

Professional investors, and the researchers and analysts who support them, work particularly hard not to be surprised. A year ago, the task seemed fairly straightforward as they watched for signs of an end to a bull run that began in 2009. Fundamentals — easing interest rates, low inflation, favorable policy developments — pointed to higher stock values.

"It was going to be kind of a no-miss year," Paulsen said.

Then on Jan. 6, a statement by the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the

emergence of a coronavirus from the Chinese city of Wuhan. Within two days, governments across Asia were scanning travelers from China for signs of it.

Chinese stocks held steady until a 3% drop on Jan. 23, the last day of trading before the Lunar New Year holiday. The Chinese government extended that break to contain the spread, shuttered factories and imposed strict lockdowns in several cities. When trading resumed on Feb. 3, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 10%.

In the U.S., the first tangible market move happened on Jan. 30, the day the WHO declared a global emergency. The yield curve between three-year and 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds inverted, a sign that investors expect economic trouble in the near term.

But the Dow Jones industrials average, which had passed 29,000 for the first time on Jan. 14, stayed above that threshold until Feb. 21.

"Toward the end of January, we had some sell indicators with some of our technical work that we do," Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Sandler in Minneapolis, said during the Star Tribune gathering.

"But I think a lot of people looked at that and said, 'This particular virus is over there in China,' and they started making all these comparisons to the SARS virus and said, 'Well, this isn't going to be as big of a deal.' " SARS was a less-infectious coronavirus that began in China in 2003. Though it spread to about 30 countries before being contained, SARS sickened only about 8,000 and killed 744 over a 14-month period.

After the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee met on Jan. 29, Fed Chairman

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YouTube has gone from Hollywood pariah to partner Continued from preceding page. service. A person watching a clip of a show on YouTube is 33% more likely to watch the program on TV, according to Nielsen.

To pump up interest for its Disney+ streaming service, Disney released a compilation of clips on YouTube from shows like "The Simpsons," where the animated family parodied Star Wars as "Cosmic Wars." In October, Disney launched a show on YouTube called "What's Up, Disney+" hosted by YouTube video creators Jenny Lorenzo and Andre Meadows that promotes what's new on the service and talks with the stars from the programs.

"When someone shows up to YouTube, it becomes a pretty powerful tool to create social dynamics in terms of communities around Star Wars, Pixar or Marvel that then we can use in terms of 'pay to get more of this, the only way to get it is on Disney+,'" Connolly said.

NBCUniversal's streaming platform, Peacock, has also has promoted itself on YouTube. One of the studio's popular YouTube channels is "The Office," which became available on Peacock on Jan. 1.

"Figuring out how we leverage those audiences that are on the platform to drive awareness and conversions into Peacock — they've been a great partner," said Maggie Suniewick, president of NBCUniversal

Digital Enterprises.

To be sure, YouTube — once the main go-to site for video creators — faces more competition from Facebook and rivals such as TikTok that specialize in 15-second videos.

In September, YouTube launched Shorts, a feature that allows users in India to record short videos, with plans to bring it to more countries.

YouTube has also pivoted away from its earlier ambitions of competing directly with Hulu through its premium subscription service. In 2019, the video sharing company said it would focus more of its original productions around YouTube stars, celebrities and music artists.

"There's fierce competition for eyeballs and for people to be figuring out the best way for storytellers to get their stories out and to grow the value of those franchises," Merryman said.

Merryman's friends believe she's up to the challenge.

"Kelly wants to win all the time, and it's contagious," said Sean Carey, who worked with Merryman at Sony and Netflix and cofounded the podcast company Auddy."

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Jerome Powell said he expected "some disruption" to business activity in China because of the new coronavirus.

"Of course, the situation is really in its early stages, and it's very uncertain about how far it will spread and what the macroeconomic effects will be in China and its immediate trading partners and neighbors and around the world," he said.

On Feb. 13, several hundred Twin Cities financial analysts gathered for the annual winter dinner hosted by their trade association, the CFA Society of Minnesota. The keynote speaker, a top portfolio manager from one of the country's biggest investment firms, talked about the virus in passing but did not mention it on his PowerPoint slides.

Just over a week later, U.S. stocks began six days of losses that wiped out 13% of the market's value. Kudlow, the presidential adviser, said on Feb. 28 that investors had gone too far and stocks were "pretty cheap."

But market watchers began to intensely focus on the virus. A U.S. analyst for London-based Capital Economics wrote on March 5 that his firm's working assumption was that U.S. cases would be limited to the "low tens of thousands."

"We all had a lot of information," Biff Robillard, president of Bannerstone Capital Management in Wayzata, Minn., said recently as he looked back on January and February.

"But it goes back to what always matters in investing, which is not the news but the reaction to the news. The reaction was quite benign until it wasn't."

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ALTON E. MITCHELL , Attorney at Law, LLC 1905 Harney Street, Suite 711 Omaha, Nebraska 68102 Notice of Organization of Wisdom Sales, LLC Notice is hereby given that a Limited Liability Company has been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The initial Registered Agent is: Alton E. Mitchell, 1905 Harney Street, Suite 711, Omaha, NE 68102.

The address of the initial Designated Office is: Wisdom Sales, LLC, 2107 South 214th Avenue, Elkhorn, NE 68022. The Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State on September 17, 2020. The Company has perpetual existence; the general nature of its business is furniture sales.

Company business will be conducted by its Manager as described in the Company’s Operating Agreement.

Alton E. Mitchell, Authorized Representative First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

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MARY E. VANDENACK, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OFAMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF JILLIAN’S MOBILE PET SPA LLC Notice is hereby given that Jillian’s Mobile Pet Spa LLC has amended its Certificate of Organization as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The amended notice of organization reflects the change of business name from JILLIAN’S MOBILE PET SPA LLC to WAG N SWAG LLC. First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

HALEY REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC 10703 J Street, Suite 101 Omaha, NE 68127 NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO THE CERTIFICATE OF ORGNAIZATION FOR PARACHUTE & THERAPEUTIC SERVICES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of Parachute & Therapeutic Services, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been amended as follows: the Company has changed its name to Parachute Therapeutic Services, LLC. The Amended Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on November 30, 2020.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MATTHEW WURSTNER, Attorney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP, Attorneys 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF DISMAL RIVER LAND COMPANY, LLC Notice is hereby given that DISMAL RIVER LAND COMPANY, LLC was dissolved by the Members by filing a Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 16, 2020. The terms of dissolution provide for the payment of liabilities of the Company and distribution of any remaining assets. Joel Jacobs, Manager, is to manage the corporate affairs and distribute assets. The Company requests any persons with claims against the Company present the claims in accordance with this Notice. Any claimant must submit the amount due, and description of the claim. Claims must be sent to Matthew Wurstner, Carlson & Burnett, LLP, 2002 Douglas Street, Ste. 100, Omaha, NE 68102. A claim against the Company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within 5 years of this notice.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

WALENTINE O'TOOLE, LLP Jamie M. Hurst, Esq. 11240 Davenport Street P.O. Box 540125 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF JJ METAL WORX, LLC JJ Metal Worx, LLC, with its initial designated office 8640 Park View Boulevard, La Vista, Nebraska 68128, gives notice that it filed its Certificate of Organization with the Nebraska Secretary of State on October 27, 2020, and that it has been organized as a Nebraska limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The initial agent for service of process is Jamie M. Hurst, and her initial mailing address is 11240 Davenport Street, P.O. Box 540125, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The company’s period of duration is perpetual, and the general nature of its business is to engage in any and all lawful business for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

Jamie M. Hurst, Organizer First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MARY E. VANDENACK, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MERIDIAN FINANCING LLC Notice is hereby given that MERIDIAN FINANCING LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 16934 Frances Street, Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68130. The agent for service of process for the Company is VW Agents LLC located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III STEMMONS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III Stemmons, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

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• JANUARY 8, 2021 • Midlands Business Journal

LEGAL NOTICES ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF G3 IC, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that G3 IC, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 16199 Capital Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68118 and designating its registered agent as Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C. a limited liability organization with its registered office at 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF OMAHA HANGAR, LLC The name of the Company is Omaha Hangar, LLC. The Designated Office of the Company is: 13030 Pierce Street, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68144. The Registered Agent and Office of the Company is: Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124.

This limited liability company commenced business on December 16, 2020.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MARY E. VANDENACK, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF TRADE NAME OF RESTORATION STATION Notice is hereby given that RESTORATION STATION has amended its Trade Name Certificate. The amended notice of trade name reflects the address change from 9663 “V” Plaza, Apt. 43, Omaha, NE 68127 to 10840 204th Avenue Circle, Gretna, NE 68028.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

BENJAMIN C. DEAVER, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF LOCAL OMAHA LADIES ADVANCING, LLC LOCAL OMAHA LADIES ADVANCING, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the "Company"), filed its STATEMENT OF DISSOLUTION with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 17, 2020. Persons with claims against the Company must present such claim to: Local Omaha Ladies Advancing, LLC, c/o Benjamin C. Deaver, 10250 Regency Circle, Ste. 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. Claims against the Company must include the following information: (i) claimant's name, address and telephone number during business hours; (ii) any facts which may support the claim; and (iii) any amounts allegedly owed by the Company under the claim. Claims not including this information will not be reviewed.

Any claims against this Company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce such claims is commenced within five (5) years after the date this Notice is last published.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

BENJAMIN J. PICK, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF EBONY PATRIOT, LLC Notice is hereby given of the organization of Ebony Patriot, LLC. 1. The name of the limited liability company is Ebony Patriot, LLC. 2. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office is 3000 Farnam Street, Suite 7H, Omaha, NE 68131.

3. The name and street address of the initial agent for service of process is Benjamin J. Pick, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

BENJAMIN J. PICK, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LRC PROPERTIES I, LLC Notice is hereby given of the organization of LRC Properties I, LLC. 1. The name of the limited liability company is LRC Properties I, LLC. 2. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office is 3000 Farnam Street, Suite 7H, Omaha, NE 68131.

3. The name and street address of the initial agent for service of process is Benjamin J. Pick, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

ERIN K. ARTZ, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF BOCOZAWH1, INC. Notice is hereby given that a corporation has been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the corporation is BOCOZAWH1, Inc. The corporation is authorized to issue 100 shares of common stock. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 11, 2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The name and street address of the corporation's initial registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and address of the incorporator is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Incorporator First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

NOTICE OF INCORPORATION Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has formed a corporation under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

1. The name of the corporation is OAK HILLS PRINTING INC. 2. The address of the registered office is 6411 S 120TH Plaza, Omaha, NE 68137, and the initial registered agent at the address is William Dickson.

3. The general nature of business is to provide a business, and to do business which is not forbidden by the laws of the State of Nebraska.

4. The authorized capital stock of the corporation is 1,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $1.00 per share, each of which may be issued for any medium permissible under the laws of the State of Nebraska and as is determined from time-to-time by the Board of Directors.

5. The corporation commenced existence on December 15, 2020 and shall have perpetual existence.

6. The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by a Board of Directors, President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and such other officers as may be chosen by the Board of Directors.

7. The incorporator is William Dickson. The address of incorporator is 6411 S 120th Plaza, Omaha, NE 68137 William Dickson, Incorporator First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF NOCI HOLDINGS, INC. 1. The name of the Corporation is NOCI Holdings, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 Shares having a par value of $0.01 each designated as common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. The corporate existence began on December 17, 2020, when Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Brian L. Harr, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CSGBD HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CSGBD Holdings, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 11011 Q Street, Suite 101B, Omaha, Nebraska 68137. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on December 17, 2020.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MARK J. LAPUZZA, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION Notice is hereby given of incorporation of V3D, Inc., under the laws of the State of Nebraska as follows: 1. The name of the Corporation is V3D, Inc. 2. The number of shares that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 10,000 shares of common stock.

3. The name of the initial registered agent is Mark J. LaPuzza, and the address of the initial registered office is 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

4. The name and address of the incorporator is Mark J. LaPuzza, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

5. The general nature of the business to be transacted by the Corporation is to engage in the transaction of any or all other lawful business operations for which corporations may be incorporated under the provisions of the Act as now constituted or as may be hereafter altered or amended.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MARY E. VANDENACK, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF THE KINGDOM IS HERE MINISTRIES Notice is hereby given that THE KINGDOM IS HERE MINISTRIES has been incorporated under the Nebraska Nonprofit Corporation Act. The corporation is a Public Benefit Corporation. The street address of the corporation’s initial registered office is 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118, and the name of the initial registered agent of the corporation at that office is Mary E. Vandenack. The corporation is organized for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. The corporation commenced on December 11, 2020. The name and street address of the incorporator of the corporation is Mary E. Vandenack, 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118. The corporation will not have members.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF 406 WOOLWORTH AVE, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is 406 Woolworth Ave, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 14993 Charles Circle, Omaha, NE 68154. The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature of the business is any or all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 7, 2020 and shall have a perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Organizer First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

JUDITH A. WELLS, Attorney at Law 5062 South 108th Street, #246 Omaha, Nebraska 68137 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-1828 Estate of MARYELLEN CONNELLY, Deceased Notice is hereby given that on 9th day of Dec., 2020, in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal Probate of the Will of said deceased, Maryellen Connelly and that Arlene Johnson, whose address is 3013 South 35th Avenue, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68105, has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Maryellen Connely, Decedent named herein.

Creditors of this estate must file their claims with this Court, located at Courtroom No. 30, Third Floor, Probate Division, Douglas County Hall of Justice, 17th & Farnam Streets, Omaha, NE 68183, on or before February 25, 2021 or be forever barred.

CARROL L. MILLS Registrar First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF DR. MEERA DEWAN, P.C. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dr. Meera Dewan, P.C., a Nebraska professional corporation (“Corporation”), has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 14, 2020, with an effective date of December 31, 2020, and the Corporation is in the process of voluntary dissolution. The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the Corporation are to be fully paid and satisfied or adequate provision is to be made therefore. The President, Dr. Meera Dewan, will wind up and liquidate the Corporation’s business and affairs. The Corporation has no assets or liabilities as of the date hereof.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

JOHN S. KAMPFE, Attorney for Petitioner Tiedeman, Lynch, Kampfe, McVay & Respeliers 6910 Pacific Street, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68106 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-1861 Estate of ZOE MATSUKIS WHITE, Deceased Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Formal Probate of a Signed Copy of Last Will of said Deceased, Determination of Heirs, and Appointment of Llyod James White, II, as Personal Representative has been filed and is set for hearing in the Douglas County Probate Court, 17th & Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, on the 5th day of February, 2021, at the hour of 9:00 o'clock, a.m.

CARROL L. MILLS Registrar First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

Midlands Business Journal • JANUARY 8, 2021 • LEGAL NOTICES ERIN K. ARTZ, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF NL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is NL Property Management, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 5641 South 85th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127.

The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature of the business is any or all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 18, 2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Organizer First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

JUSTIN A. SHELDON, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 AMENDED NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SHINE 365 LLC Notice is hereby given that SHINE 365 LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 18520 Van Camp Drive, Omaha, NE 68130. The agent for service of process for the Company is VW Agents LLC located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118. The amended notice of organization reflects the following change: The agent for service of process for the Company from Douglas G. Wilwerding located at 18520 Van Camp Drive, Omaha, NE 68130 to VW Agents LLC located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MATTHEW T. PAYNE, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CQUENCE HEALTH GROUP TWO, LLC Notice is hereby given of the organization of CQuence Health Group Two, LLC: 1. The name of the limited liability company is CQuence Health Group Two, LLC 2. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office is 13808 F Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68137, and the name and street address of the initial agent for service of process is Matthew T. Payne, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF ABCD HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ABCD Holdings, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 11011 “Q” Street, Suite 101B, Omaha, Nebraska 68137. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on December 21, 2020.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

JUSTIN A. SHELDON, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 AMENDED NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF KMAM LLC Notice is hereby given that KMAM LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 5522 Mayberry Street, Omaha, NE 68106. The agent for service of process for the Company is VW Agents LLC located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118. The amended notice of organization reflects the following changes: The address of the initial designated office of the company from 522 Mayberry Street, Omaha, NE 68106 to 5522 Mayberry Street, Omaha, NE 68106; and The agent for service of process for the Company from David G. Wilwerding located at 8010 Woolworth Avenue, Omaha, NE 68124 to VW Agents LLC located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

ANNE K. BURNETT, Attorney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF G & R HOME SERVICES GROUP, LLC Notice is hereby given that G & R HOME SERVICES GROUP, LLC is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The initial designated office is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, Nebraska, 68130. The Company’s initial registered agent in the State of Nebraska is: Anne K. Burnett, whose address is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, Nebraska, 68130. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful business and activity, as may be mutually agreed upon by the Members from time to time, and which are not prohibited by the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The Company commenced with filing its Certificate of Organization on December 16, 2020, and shall have a perpetual period of duration. The Company is a Member Managed Limited Liability Company.

Anne K. Burnett, Organizer First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

SCOTT A. MEYERSON, Esq. LIKES MEYERSON HATCH LLC 444 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MXD360 LLC Notice is hereby given that MXD360 LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial designated office is 3900 Canary Lane, Omaha, Nebraska 68152. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial agent for service of process is 3900 Canary Lane, Omaha, Nebraska 68152 and the Company’s initial agent for service of process at such address is Bret Schnittgrund.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MICHAEL BRIARDY AGENCY, L.L.C. Notice is hereby given that Michael Briardy Agency, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under Nebraska laws, with its designated office at 2201 N 90th Street, #124, Omaha, NE 68134. It is organized to transact any lawful business for which a Limited Liability Company may be organized under Nebraska laws and its duration is perpetual commencing from December 8, 2020. Its affairs are to be conducted by the manager Michael P Briardy. Its registered agent is Michael P Briardy and her office is located at 1731 South Street, Blair, NE 68008.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

JENNIFER L. RATTNER, Esq. RINGENBERG & RATTNER LAW 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DIMEPIVA, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DIMEPIVA, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 400, Omaha, NE 68114. The Registered Agent of the Company is Jennifer L. Rattner, Esq., Ringenberg & Rattner Law, LLC, 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204, Omaha, Nebraska 68154.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF RAINWOOD MANOR FARM, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rainwood Manor Farm, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 19802 Rainwood Road, Bennington, Nebraska 68007. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 W. Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC Notice is hereby given that Hardline Holdings LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office address of the Company is 16502 S 78th St. Papillion, NE 68046.

Its purpose is any lawful business. The Registered Agent of the company is Mitchell Scanlan, 16502 S 78th St. Papillion, Ne 68046.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC Notice is hereby given that Aperture Development LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office address of the Company is 16502 S 78th St. Papillion, NE 68046. Its purpose is any lawful business. The Registered Agent of the company is Mitchell Scanlan, 16502 S 78th St. Papillion, Ne 68046.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

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MYRON J. KAPLAN, Attorney McGILL, GOTSDINER, WORKMAN & LEPP, P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 11404 West Dodge Road, Suite 500, First National Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68154-2584 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF AMERICAN LAWN & LANDSCAPING, INC. Notice is hereby given that American Lawn & Landscaping, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State, and such Corporation is in the process of voluntary dissolution.

The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the corporation are to be fully paid and satisfied or adequate provision is to be made therefor. The balance of the corporate assets are to be distributed to its shareholders.

The name of the person who is to manage, wind up and liquidate the corporation's affairs and his official title is David Lagerstrom, President.

The statement of the corporation's assets and liabilities as of the date hereof is as follows: Assets: $0.00 Liabilities: $0.00.

David Lagerstrom, President First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP, Attorneys 13330 California Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF CONVERSION OF DRIVER DOC, LLC TO DRIVER DOC INC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DRIVER DOC, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has filed Articles of Conversion with the Nebraska Secretary of State converting the limited liability company to DRIVER DOC INC., a Delaware corporation, effective December 14, 2020. The Company has designated its registered agent as The Corporation Trust Company, with registered office at Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is Christ Church Omaha.

2. The Corporation is a religious corporation.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. The name and address of the Incorporator is as follows: Alexander J. Wolf, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124.

5. The Corporation shall have no members.

6. The corporate existence began on December 21, 2020, when Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

MATTHEW WURSTNER, Attorney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP, Attorneys 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130 NOTICE OF CONVERSION OF PONCA CREEK, LLC Notice is hereby given that PONCA CREEK, INC. was organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on July 7, 2009. Pursuant to Articles and a Plan of Conversion filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 14, 2020, PONCA CREEK, INC. converted to a limited liability Company named PONCA CREEK, LLC. The designated office is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The Company’s registered agent is Darren R. Carlson, whose address is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful business and activity, as may be mutually agreed upon by the Members from time to time, and which are not prohibited by the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The Company shall have a perpetual period of duration. The Company is a Manager Managed Limited Liability Company. The initial Manager of the Company is Jeffrey L. Jensen whose address is 11555 North 60th Street, Omaha, NE 68152.

Matthew Wurstner, Attorney First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

ERIN K. ARTZ, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF BOCOZAWH2, INC. Notice is hereby given that a corporation has been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the corporation is BOCOZAWH2, Inc. The corporation is authorized to issue 100 sharess of common stock. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December ,2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The name and street address of the crporation's initial registered agent office is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and address of the incorporator is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Incorporator First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

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• JANUARY 8, 2021 • Midlands Business Journal

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is given that GREAT PLAINS REMODELING, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska with the following registered agent and registered office: Cesar Dominguez Munoz at the designated office address of 1115 Ave F #431 Wisner, NE 68791. The general nature of the Company's business is to engage in any lawful business permitted under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The company was organized on October 28, 2020, and it shall continue in perpetuity unless sooner terminated in accordance with the terms of its operating agreement.

In general, the Company's business is to be managed by its primary member Cesar Dominguez Munoz in accordance with the Company's operating agreement.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LOVEOURROOF LINCOLN, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LoveOurRoof Lincoln, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 4526 South 143rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68137. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on December 18, 2020.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

ROBERT J. LIKES, Attorney LIKES MEYERSON HATCH LLC 444 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF TOMBSTONE LLC Notice is hereby given that Tombstone LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial designated office is 11805 Skylark Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68144. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial agent for service of process is 11805 Skylark Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68144 and the Company’s initial agent for service of process at such address is Patricia Ferguson.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

ALTON E. MITCHELL, Attorney at Law, LLC 1905 Harney Street, Suite 711 Omaha, Nebraska 68102 Notice of Organization of Wisdom Enterprises, LLC Notice is hereby given that a Limited Liability Company has been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska.The initial Registered Agent is: Alton E. Mitchell, 1905 Harney Street, Suite 711, Omaha, NE 68102. The address of the initial Designated Office is: Wisdom Enterprises, LLC, 2107 South 214th Avenue, Elkhorn, NE 68022. The Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State on November 12, 2020.

The Company has perpetual existence; the general nature of its business is real estate investment. Company business will be conducted by its Manager as described in the Company’s Operating Agreement.

Alton E. Mitchell, Authorized Representative First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF INCORPORATION The name of the corporation is Partners for Livable Omaha. The address of the registered office is 819 S. 49 Avenue, Omaha, NE, 68106. The registered agent of said corporation is Jessica Scheuerman. The corporation is a public benefit corporation and will have members. The name and address of the Incorporator is Jessica Scheuerman, 819 S 49 Ave, Omaha, Nebraska 68106.

Jessica Scheuerman, Incorporator First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF TUNOD, LLC The name of the Company is TUNOD, LLC. The Designated Office of the Company is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The Registered Agent and Office of the Company is: Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The purpose is to invest in qualified opportunity zone property by acquiring qualified opportunity zone partnership interests or qualified opportunity zone stock in one or more first-tier subsidiaries or by directly acquiring qualified opportunity zone business property and to engage in other activities incidental or related thereto. The Company intends to be a qualified opportunity fund and cause any first-tier subsidiaries it invests in to meet the requirements for a qualified opportunity zone business. This limited liability company commenced business on December 21, 2020 First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GOLDENROD MORTGAGE GP, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Goldenrod Mortgage GP, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122 First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GDWSF KEARNEY MORTGAGE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GDWSF Kearney Mortgage, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GDWSF M N MORTGAGE LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GDWSF M N Mortgage, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GDWSF 3 PINE MORTGAGE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GDWSF 3 Pine Mortgage, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III ST. CROIX BUILDING I, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III St. Croix Building I, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III ST. CROIX GP, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III St. Croix GP, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III ST. CROIX LP, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III St. Croix LP, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III TITAN GP, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III Titan GP, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III TITAN LP, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III Titan LP, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122. The Registered Agent of the Company is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68122.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF JEMPAY ENTERPRISES, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Jempay Enterprises, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 3202 S. 188th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68130. The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature of the business is any or all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 22, 2020 and shall have a perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is J.K. Lempka Holdings, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 22, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Black Cat III, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and street and mailing address of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Thomas J. Malicki, Abrahams Kaslow & Cassman LLP, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF CONVERSION OF NICKY’S OIL CO., INC. AND ORGANIZATION OF NICKY’S OIL CO., LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nicky's Oil Co., Inc. has been converted into Nicky's Oil Co., LLC under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office of the company is 3512 S. 193rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68130. The Registered Office of the company is 1125 S. 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124 and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen, P.C., L.L.O. The conversion of the corporation into the limited liability company was accomplished by the filing of Articles of Conversion and Certificate of Organization with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 22, 2020.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

CATHERINE E. FRENCH, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION AND AMENDMENT TO THE CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF FACE VALUE, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Face Value, LLC. The address of the registered office is 835 North 132nd Avenue, Omaha, NE 68154. The name and address of the registered agent is Kristen Hammes, 835 North 132nd Avenue, Omaha, NE 68154. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 23, 2019 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Manager, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

Notice is hereby given that an Amendment to the Certificate of Organization of Face Value, LLC was filed with the Secretary of State on December 21, 2020, to change the business to a professional limited liability company with the nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business, including nursing.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Organizer First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

Midlands Business Journal • JANUARY 8, 2021 • LEGAL NOTICES ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Quinergy, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and street and mailing address of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Thomas J. Malicki, Abrahams Kaslow & Cassman LLP, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF INCREDIBLE METHODS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Incredible Methods, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office address of this Limited LLC is 15011 Butler Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68116. The Registered Agent of the LLC is Papa Mensah and his office address is 15011 Butler Ave, Omaha, Nebraska 68116.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Smith CDH Holdings, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and street and mailing address of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Thomas J. Malicki, Abrahams Kaslow & Cassman LLP, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Hunzeker Holdings, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and street and mailing address of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Thomas J. Malicki, Abrahams Kaslow & Cassman LLP, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

NOTICE OF MERGER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Articles of Merger merging Project Oscar 2.0, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, into Project Oscar, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State effective December 17, 2020, in accordance with the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The surviving entity in the merger is Project Oscar, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF BARGO HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Bargo Holdings, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 4410 North 195th Circle, Elkhorn, Nebraska 68022. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 W. Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF BLUEJAY NEST, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Bluejay Nest, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 216 North 96th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on December 14, 2020.

First publication December 25, 2020, final January 8, 2021

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KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is Armageddon, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 22, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is Edick Holdings, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 22, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is DT 2020 Holdings, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 23, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

TIEDEMAN, LYNCH, KAMPFE, McVAY & RESPELIERS, Attorneys 300 Overland Wold Centre, 6910 Pacific Street, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68106-1045 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that West Omaha Service Club has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The corporation is a public benefit corporation. The initial registered agent is John S. Kampfe, and the registered agent’s address is 6910 Pacific Street, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68106. The corporation was formed on December 18, 2020 and shall have perpetual existence. The name and address of the incorporator are John S. Kampfe, 6910 Pacific Street, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68106.

The corporation shall have members.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is DTSC Holdings, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 23, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

THOMAS H. PENKE, Attorney 12020 Shamrock Plaza, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that MONTASKA PARTNERS, LLC has organized pursuant to R.R.S. Section 21-101 et seq. The registered office and the Designated office are located at 12020 Shamrock Plaza, Suite 200, Omaha, Nebraska 68154, and the registered agent at that address is THOMAS H. PENKE. The nature of the business to be transacted is any lawful business. The business commenced on December 17, 2020 and is perpetual. The affairs of the company are to be conducted by the President, Secretary and Treasurer.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

ERIN K. ARTZ, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF NL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is NL Property Management, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 5641 South 85th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127.

The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature ofthe business is any or all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 18, 2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Organizer First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is D.O. Bear, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 22, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 1. The name of the Corporation is ATP Strategies, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 per share, of which 5,000 shares shall be designated as voting common stock and 5,000 shares shall be designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124, and the Registered Agent at such address is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O. 4. Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 22, 2020.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Jeffery R. Schaffart, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

DANIEL C. PAULEY, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF BACTLD, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is BACTLD, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 16605 Oak Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on July 31st and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Organizer First publication January 1, 2021, final January 15, 2021

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• JANUARY 8, 2021 • Midlands Business Journal

LEGAL NOTICES MATTHEW WURSTNER, Attorney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP, Attorneys 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION - ROCKWELL ROADRUNNERS PTO, INC. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has formed a corporation under the Nebraska Nonprofit Corporation Act by filing Articles of Incorporation with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 23, 2020. The name of the corporation is ROCKWELL ROADRUNNERS PTO, INC. The Corporation is a public benefit corporation and will not have members. The address of the registered office of the corporation is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130, and the initial registered agent is MATTHEW WURSTNER. First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MISHKA, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mishka, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 21 Ginger Woods Circle, Valley, Nebraska 68064 and designating its registered agent as Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C. a limited liability organization with its registered office at 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ALA Holdings L.L.C., a Nebraska limited liability company, filed its Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 28, 2020, and the company is in the process of voluntary dissolution. The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the company are to be fully paid and satisfied or adequate provision is to be made therefore, and that the balance of any remaining assets are to be distributed to its Members. Scott Alff will wind up and liquidate the company’s business and affairs. If you have a claim against ALA Holdings L.L.C., please provide the following information with respect to your claim: (1) your name or the name of your entity; (2) the nature of your claim; (3) the amount of your claim; and (4) the date your claim arose. All claims shall be mailed to 10011 J Street, Suite 6, Omaha, Nebraska 68127. A claim against ALA Holdings L.L.C. is barred unless an action to enforce the claim is commenced within five (5) years after the publication date of the third required notice.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF ALA HOLDINGS, INC. 1. The name of the Corporation is ALA Holdings, Inc. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 1,000,000 Shares having a par value of $.10 each with 100,000 shares designated as voting common stock and 900,000 shares designated as nonvoting common stock.

3. The Registered Office of the Corporation is: 10011 J Street, Suite 6, Omaha, Nebraska 68127, and the Registered Agent at such address is John L. Holtz.

4. The corporate existence began on December 28, 2020, when Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: Michael M. Hupp, 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska 68124.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

BARBARA MEDBERY-PRCHAL, P.C., L.L.O., Attorney 11102 Blondo Street, Suite 103 Omaha, Nebraska 68164 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF TRINITY DRUG TESTING, LLC Notice is hereby given that a Statement of Dissolution was filed by TRINITY DRUG TESTING, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on September 22, 2020. Notice is hereby given to all creditors or others with claims against the limited liability company that claims must be sent to the company at ATTN: Debra Wasley, 4400 N. Big Spring Street, Suite C26, Midland, TX 79705, and must document the basis for the claim. Any claim must provide the following information in writing: (1) your name and/or the name of your entity; (2) the nature of your claim; (3) the amount of your claim; and (4) the date your claim arose. Please send the information to Debra Wasley, 4400 N. Big Spring Street, Suite C26, Midland, TX 79705. All claims against the company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce such claims is commenced within five (5) years after the publication date of the third required notice.

Debra Wasley, Member First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

JOHN S. KAMPFE, Attorney to Petitioner TIEDEMAN, LYNCH, KAMPFE, MCVAY & RESPELIERS 300 Overalnd Worlk Centre 6910 Pacific Street, Omaha, NE 68106-1045 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-1935 Estate of JOAN S. LANAHAN, Deceased Notice is hereby given that on December 22, 2020, in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal Probate of the Will of said Deceased and that CHRISTINE DORING, whose address is 50 Manchester Court, Berwyn, Pennsylvania 19312, has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate.

Creditors of this estate must file their claims with this Court, located at Courtroom No. 30, Third Floor, Probate Division, Douglas County Hall of Justice, 17th & Farnam Streets, Omaha, NE 68183, on or before March 8, 2021 or be forever barred.

KELLEY GOLDEN Clerk of the County Court First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF THE COLONOSCOPY CENTER, INC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The Colonoscopy Center, Inc., a Nebraska corporation (“Corporation”), has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 23, 2020, with an effective date of December 31, 2020, and the Corporation is in the process of voluntary dissolution. The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the Corporation are to be fully paid and satisfied or adequate provision is to be made therefore. The President, Dr. Garnet Blatchford, will wind up and liquidate the Corporation’s business and affairs. The Corporation has no assets or liabilities as of the date hereof.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

MATTHEW WURSTNER, Attorney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP, Attorneys 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130 NOTICE OF AMENDMENT – DOLPHINS, INC. Notice is hereby given that on December 28, 2020, DOLPHINS INC., a Nebraska corporation, filed an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation.

The Amendment started the Company changed its name to “BONELLA HOLDINGS, INC.” and the name “BONELLA HOLDINGS, INC.” is to be substituted each place in the Articles of Incorporation where the name “DOLPHINS, INC.” appears. In all other respects, the Articles of Incorporation remain unchanged.

By: Gloria M. Bonella, President First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

SEAN D. MOYLAN, Attorney MOYLAN LAW, LLC 1010 South 120th Street, Suite 320 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SAMANTHA WORTHING PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC The name of the Company is Samantha Worthing Photography, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company. The initial registered agent is Sean Moylan located at 1010 S. 120th Street, Suite #320, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The initial designated office of the Company is located at 1814 Spring Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68108. This limited liability company commenced business on December 28, 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

AMANDA M. FORKER, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF CUTTER'S BUILDING GROUP, INC. CUTTER'S BUILDING GROUP, INC., a Nebraska corporation (the "Corporation"), has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State with a dissolution date effective December 28, 2020. The terms of the dissolution provide for the payment of liabilities of the Corporation and the distribution of any remaining assets to the Shareholder of the Corporation. Kristi J. Lambrecht, President, will manage the Corporation's affairs and distribute its assets. Persons with claims against the Corporation must present such claim(s) to: Cutter's Building Group, Inc., c/o Amanda M. Forker, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

Claims against the Corporation must include the following information: (i) claimant’s name, address and telephone number during business hours; (ii) any facts which may support the claim; and (iii) any amounts allegedly owed by the Corporation under the claim. Claims not including this information will not be reviewed. Any claims against this Corporation will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce such claims is commenced within three (3) years after the date of this publication.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Healthspan Chiropractic, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The limited liability company shall conduct the practice of chiropractic medicine.

The designated office of the limited liability company is 12703 Reed Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68022. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on December 23, 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: Iron Bluff Name of Applicant: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, LLC Address: 12910 Pierce Street, Suite 110, Omaha, Nebraska, 68144 Applicant is a Limited Liability Company If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: December 2020 General nature of business: Real Estate Development JAMES D. BUSER, Manager Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative January 8, 2021

BARBARA MEDBERY-PRCHAL, P.C., L.L.O., Attorney 11102 Blondo Street, Suite 103 Omaha, Nebraska 68164 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GOLDEN EXTERIORS AND REMODELING, LLC Notice is hereby given that a limited liability company has been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the company is Golden Exteriors and Remodeling, LLC The name and street address of the company’s initial registered agent is Law Offices of Barbara MedberyPrchal, P.C., L.L.O., 11102 Blondo Street, Suite 103, Omaha, NE 68164.

The designated office is located at 4225 S. 26th Street, Omaha, NE 68107.

Dayana Rodriguez, Member First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP, Attorneys 13330 California Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DINGMAN FAMILY HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dingman Family Holdings, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on December 29, 2020 (the “Company”). The Company has designated its registered agent as Diana Dingman, with registered office at 3510 South 144th Street, Omaha, NE 68144. The Company’s initial designated office is at 3402 North 120th Street, Omaha, NE 68164. The Company shall be governed by one or more managers. The general nature of business is any lawful purpose.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF DAKOTA ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dakota Asset Management, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), filed a Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 29, 2020.

The terms of the dissolution provide for the payment of liabilities of the Company and distribution of any remaining assets.

The Company requests that persons with claims against it present them in accordance with this notice. Any claimant shall describe the claim and the date on which the claim arose and mail the claim to the above address.

A claim against the company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after the publication of this notice.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MARTINI ENTERPRISES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Martini Enterprises, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 4433 South 96th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68127. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on December 29, 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

Midlands Business Journal • JANUARY 8, 2021 • LEGAL NOTICES JESSICA E. THOMAS, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF ZOMAS, LLC ZOMAS, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the "Company"), filed its STATEMENT OF DISSOLUTION with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 29, 2020. Persons with claims against the Company must present such claim to: Zomas, LLC, c/o Jessica E. Thomas, 10250 Regency Circle, Ste. 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. Claims against the Company must include the following information: (i) claimant's name, address and telephone number during business hours; (ii) any facts which may support the claim; and (iii) any amounts allegedly owed by the Company under the claim. Claims not including this information will not be reviewed. Any claims against this Company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce such claims is commenced within five (5) years after the date this Notice is last published.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: Chromatic Black Studio Name of Applicant: Chromatic Black Studio, Inc. Address: 1814 N. 54th Street Omaha NE 68104 Applicant is a Corporation If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: September 2, 2020 General nature of business: Art and Design MARK LAPUZZA Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative January 8, 2021

ERIN K. ARTZ, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF LDC, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is LDC, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 313 Court Sheet, Beatrice, Nebraska 68310. The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omahao Nebraska 68114. The general nature of the business is any or all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 29,2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, lnc., Or ganizer First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

MYRON J. KAPLAN, Attorney McGILL, GOTSDINER, WORKMAN & LEPP, P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 11404 West Dodge Road, Suite 500, First National Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68154-2584 NOTICE OFAMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF MILLER PROPERTIES, L.L.C. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Miller Properties, L.L.C., a Nebraska limited liability company, has filed an Amended Certificate of Organization, effective January 1, 2021, revoking the provision of its Articles of Organization establishing the name of the Company and substituting the following provision in its place: Article 1 NAME The name of the Company is Baatz Properties, L.L.C. Stan Baatz, Member First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

ERIN K. ARTZ, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF BUSHWOOD LEASING, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Bushwood Leasing, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 313 Court Street, Beatrice, Nebraska 68310. The name and address of the registered agent and office is LDM Business Services, Inc, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature ofthe business is any or all lawful business. The company commenced existence on December 29,2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, lnc., Or ganizer First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF VERISOLUTIONS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that VeriSolutions, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 1406 Veterans Drive, Suite 215, Omaha, Nebraska 68022. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 W. Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: G8 Natural Landscapes Name of Applicant: G8 Management, LLC Address: 14206 Woolworth Circle Omaha NE 68144 Applicant is a Limited Liability Company If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: General nature of business: landscaping KEITH M. GLEASON Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative January 8, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Patagonia Framing and Interiors, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The initial designated office’s street address is 512 Village Avenue Lincoln, NE 68503. The initial designated office’s mailing address is 512 Village Avenue Lincoln, NE 68503. The Registered Agent is David Subiabre. The street address of the Registered Agent is 512 Village Avenue Lincoln, NE 68503 and the mailing address is 512 Village Avenue Lincoln, NE 68503. The main purpose of the business will be to engage in but not limited to interior home and commercial framing, home and commercial interior and exterior design, updates and decoration, whole home and commercial construction and remodels to specification.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF NOCI HOLDINGS, INC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NOCI Holdings, Inc., a Nebraska corporation (“Corporation”), has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 30, 2020, and the Corporation is in the process of voluntary dissolution. The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the Corporation are to be fully paid and satisfied or adequate provision is to be made therefore. The President, Nichole Mallett, will wind up and liquidate the Corporation’s business and affairs. The Corporation has no assets or liabilities as of the date hereof.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP, LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: DREYAHBOHLEN CONSULTING Name of Applicant: DREYAH BOHLEN Address: 800 N. Fort Street, Suite 501A, Waterloo, NE 68069 Applicant is a Individual.

If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: June 2020 General nature of business: website and social media design and consulting services DREYAH BOHLEN Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative January 8, 2021

TIFFANY E. THOMPSON, Attorney 4611 South 96th Street, Suite 256 Omaha, NE 68127 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that HearthPoint, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, as of September 9, 2020, with its registered office at 2718 N HWS Cleveland Boulevard, Omaha, NE 68116, and with Randy W. Harrison as its initial agent for service of process at 2718 N HWS Cleveland Boulevard, Omaha, NE 68116. The general nature of its business is to engage in and to do any lawful act and any and all lawful business for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of Nebraska.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

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NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF GOLDENROD FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the Articles of Incorporation of Goldenrod Financial Services, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, has been amended to change the name of the company to Goldenrod Services, Inc. The Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on December 29, 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HEGARTY HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Hegarty Holdings, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 9802 Ascot Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 W. Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DUBLINER VENTURES LLC Notice is hereby given that Dubliner Ventures LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on December 15, 2020, to conduct any and all lawful business for which limited liability companies can be organized pursuant to the Nebraska statute. The registered agent and designated office for Dubliner Ventures LLC is Alexandra Black at 15459 Stevens Plaza, Omaha, NE 68137. Dubliner Ventures LLC will be membermanaged.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

WHITMORE LAW OFFICE LLC 7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Alluring Beauty, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office of the Company is 17672 Welch Plaza, Suite 120, Omaha, Nebraska 68135. The Registered Agent of the Company is Alixandria Morrison, 7124 S 155th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68138. The Company was formed on December 29, 2020, and will be effective as of January 1, 2021.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF QTD CONSULTING, LLC Notice is hereby given that QTD Consulting, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address is 10510 Parker Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

The Registered Agent is Stephen F Molini with business commencing on December 1st, 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DAVEY TRUCKING LLC The name of the Company is Davey Trucking LLC. The Designated Office of the Company is: 18062 Margo Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68136.

The Registered Agent and Office of the Company is: Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. This limited liability company commenced business on December 30, 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

MYRON J. KAPLAN, Attorney McGILL, GOTSDINER, WORKMAN & LEPP, P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 11404 West Dodge Road, Suite 500, First National Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68154-2584 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARSOW'S FASHIONS FOR MEN, INC. Notice is hereby given that Parsow's Fashions for Men, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State, and such Corporation is in the process of voluntary dissolution.

The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the corporation are to be fully paid and satisfied or adequate provision is to be made therefor. The balance of the corporate assets are to be distributed to its shareholders.

The name of the person who is to manage, wind up and liquidate the corporation’s affairs and his official title is David Parsow, President.

The statement of the corporation’s assets and liabilities as of the date hereof is as follows: Assets: $490,000.00 Liabilities: $120,000.00 David Parsow, President First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

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LEGAL NOTICES BENJAMIN J. PICK, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SCOUT PROPERTIES, LLC Notice is hereby given of the organization of Scout Properties, LLC: 1. The name of the limited liability company is Scout Properties, LLC; and 2. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office is 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114, and the name and street address of the initial agent for service of process is Benjamin J. Pick, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF TAMCHESCA, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Tamchesca, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 4954 South 176th Circle, Omaha, Nebraska 68135. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 W. Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION Eightmile, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been dissolved and is winding up its activities in accordance with the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. Persons having claims against the Company must submit them in writing to Mark T. Mowat at 13404 Eagle Run Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68164. Any claim submitted to the Company shall contain the following information with respect to such claim: the name of the claimant, a description of the nature of the claim, the amount of the claim, and the date on which the claim arose. A claim against the Company is barred unless an action to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after the third publication of this Notice of Dissolution.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SCHAEFER DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Schaefer Development Company, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 2927 N 84th St, Omaha, Nebraska 68134. The Registered Agent of the Company is DARST, BRUNE & ASSOCIATES, LLC, Attn: Jeff Lapel 14707 California St. #10, Omaha, Nebraska 68154.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

Notice is hereby given that OMV-2, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska, with its initial designated office at 13305 Birch Dr Ste 201, Omaha, NE 68164.

The initial agent for service of process of the Company is Greg Cutchall, 13305 Birch Dr Ste 201, Omaha, NE 68164.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 Notice is hereby given that a Termination of Notice of Commencement was recorded on December 29, 2020, with the Douglas County Register of Deeds, Instr. No: 2020155463.

Description of Property: Lot 1, Aksarben Village South Replat One, an Addition to the City of Omaha, as surveyed, platted and recorded in Douglas County, Nebraska.

Contracting Owner: Center 60 Hospitality, LLC, c/o CFM Realty, 9140 West Dodge Road, Suite 404, Omaha, Nebraska 68114, Attn: JF Carter.

The contracting owner’s interest in the real estate is fee simple, subject to easements, covenants and restrictions of record, if any.

The name and address of the fee simple title holder, if other than the contracting owner is: same.

The Notice of Commencement to which this Termination applies was recorded on April 1, 2019, as Instrument No. 2019020811, in the records of the Register of Deeds of Douglas County, Nebraska.

The Notice of Commencement identified above shall be terminated on January 28, 2021.

All lien claims for which a notice of lien is not recorded by the termination date referenced above may be defeated by a transfer of the real estate.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

CATHERINE E. FRENCH, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF FY3, LLC Notice is hereby given of the formation of a professional limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the professional limited liability company is FY3, LLC. The address of the company’s initial designated office is 17410 Burke Street, Suite 200, Omaha, Nebraska 68118. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114.

The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business, including nursing. The company commenced existence on December 31, 2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the manager as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

LDM Business Services, Inc., Organizer First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

MICHAEL J. WEAVER, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF DDW LLC. Notice is hereby given that DDW LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, (the "Company") has been dissolved pursuant to the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The Company has collected and liquidated its assets, discharged its liabilities, distributed its remaining property to its member, and done every other act necessary to wind up and liquidate its business and affairs. Douglas J. Wilwerding, Manager of the Company, was the person responsible for winding up and liquidating the business and affairs of the Company. All claims against the Company must be made in writing and must include (1) the amount of the claim, (2) the basis of the claim, and (3) all documentation supporting the claim, including, without limitation, invoices, purchase orders, and contracts. All claims must be sent to Douglas J. Wilwerding, c/o Michael J. Weaver, 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118. All claims against the Company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after the publication of this notice.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC A NEBRASKA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 1. The name of the limited liability company is FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC. 2. The period of duration for FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC is perpetual.

3. FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC is organized for the purpose of conducting any and all business as permitted by the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. 4. The address of the initial designated office for FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC in Nebraska is 4305 Barker Ave, Omaha, NE 68105.

5. The name and address of the registered agent for FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC in Nebraska is Cynthia Breasch, 4879 S 132nd Ave, Omaha NE 68137.

6. Additional provisions, not inconsistent with the law, for the regulation of the internal affairs of the limited liability company shall be provided for in the Operating Agreement.

7. Holly Swirczek, organizer(s) of FRANCES PROPERTIES LLC has signed the Foregoing Certificate of Organization effective this 1st Day of October 2020.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF WEALTHPLAN HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that WealthPlan Holdings, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 101 South 108th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

WAYNE S. RASMUSSEN, Attorney SMITH SLUSKY POHREN & ROGERS LLP 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 400 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION 247.AG, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 29, 2020, 247.AG, LLC was organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, with a designated office at 306 N. 167th Plz. #6, Omaha Nebraska 68118. The Company’s initial agent for service of process is Terry Svejda, 306 N. 167th Plz. #6, Omaha, Nebraska 68118.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

Notice is hereby given that CMC MOUTH of the SOUTH, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska, with its initial designated office at 13305 Birch Dr Ste 201, Omaha, NE 68164. The initial agent for service of process of the Company is Greg Cutchall, 13305 Birch Dr Ste 201, Omaha, NE 68164.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SOGO, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SOGO, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 10101 J Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68127.

The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

RODNEY G. GNUSE, Attorney GNUSE & GREEN LAW OFFICES, P.C. 11311 Chicago Circle Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF PERMANENT NERD DAMAGE STUDIOS, INC. Notice is hereby given of incorporation of PERMANENT NERD DAMAGE STUDIOS, INC. under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The number of shares that the corporation is authorized to issue is up to 10,000 shares of voting common stock.

The name and address of the incorporator and the initial registered agent is Jesse Neese, 3273 S. 104th Avenue, Omaha, NE 68124.

The Corporation shall engage in any lawful business for which a corporation may be formed under the Nebraska Model Business Corporation Act. Perpetual existence commenced December 30, 2020, when articles were filed with the Secretary of State. Affairs are to be conducted by the Board of Directors and Officers authorized by the Bylaws and the Board.

Rodney G. Gnuse, Incorporator First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given of the organization of Marie Joyce, LLC, with its registered office address at 118 East Grove Street, West Point, Nebraska 68788 and the registered agent at that address being Russell J. Kreikemeier.

The designated office location of the Company is 14620 Lake Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68116. The purpose or purposes for which this Company is formed is to own, manage, lease, and deal with real property whether in this State or any other and to conduct all related activities thereto. The Company shall conduct the transactions of all or any lawful business or engagement in any commercial venture permitted by the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act, as amended, and all other applicable laws. The initial capital of the Company has been contributed and evidence of membership in the Company will be issued by the Management Board. The Company commenced doing business on December 16, 2020, and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company shall be conducted by a Management Board and such other Officers and Managers as may be provided for in the Operating Agreement of the Company.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

Notice is hereby given that Siebrandt Realty LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska, with its initial designated office at 712 N Polk St Papillion, NE 68046. The initial agent for service of process of the Company is Kristina Siebrandt, 712 N Polk St, Papillion, NE 68046. The company is membermanaged. Nature of the Company is real estate services.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

BENJAMIN C. DEAVER, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF LOCAL OMAHA LADIES ADVANCING Notice is hereby given of incorporation of Local Omaha Ladies Advancing under the laws of the State of Nebraska as follows: 1. The name of the corporation is Local Omaha Ladies Advancing.

2. Local Omaha Ladies Advancing is a public benefit corporation.

3. The street address of the Corporation's initial registered office is 1104 South 84th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The name of its initial registered agent at that office is Antonette Pash.

4. The name and address of the incorporator is as follows: Antonette Pash 1104 South 84th Street Omaha, NE 68124 5. The Corporation shall engage in any lawful business for which a corporation may be formed under the Nebraska Nonprofit Corporation Act. 6. The Corporation shall not have members.

First publication January 8, 2021, final January 22, 2021

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Advances in Omaha Health Care Real Estate A section prepared by the staff of the Midlands Business Journal

A section prepared by the staff of the Midlands Business Journal

Topics may include:

Topics may include:

Latest in technology advances • Telehealth boom - will it stick?

Dealing with health disparities • Treatment advances for cancer How COVID-19 will change health care industry forever

Omaha Real Estate market • Residential real estate Commercial real estate • Diversity efforts in buying/selling homes as well as becoming an agent

Issue Date: January 22 • Ad Deadline: January 14

Issue Date: January 22 • Ad Deadline: January 14

Business Business Planning Annual Preview A section prepared by the staff of the Midlands Business Journal

A section prepared by the staff of the Midlands Business Journal

Topics may include:

Topics may include:

Business Planning overview • Crafting a plan/goals for 2021 How businesses should prep for operating beyond the pandemic Developing a marketing plan • Financial strategy Understanding your market

The Greater Omaha economy • A/E/C Banking/Finance • Education • Technology Business service providers

Issue Date: January 29 • Ad Deadline: January 21

Issue Date: January 29 • Ad Deadline: January 21

To advertise your company’s products or services in one of our upcoming sections, contact our Director of Advertising at karla@mbj.com.

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Coronavirus lesson North Pacific pollock fleet prepares for winter season Continued from page 10. the first time, when the Dow Jones industrials average fell 12.9%, its second-biggest single-day decline ever.

Stocks reached their low a week later on March 23, the day the Federal Reserve began extending loans to businesses and buying hundreds of billions of dollars in government debt. The Dow touched 18,213 that day; it reached 29,000 again in November.

Paulsen said, in retrospect, he should have realized the extreme steps China was taking to curtail the virus, such as spraying disinfectant through city streets and confining people to their homes, couldn't have been duplicated by the U.S. As well, with far more people traveling internationally than even in 2003, the risk of spread is far greater. Given another chance, he said he would have told clients to pare their risk but not cash out of their investments entirely.

Despite wishing he had done a few things differently, Paulsen said he's not sure the experience of 2020 offers a template the next time a market shock comes along.

"You still have to put the pieces together.

There might be a similar situation again and, guess what, it might turn out very different," he said. "The lesson I take is to make sure to give everything appropriate consideration."

(Staff writers Patrick Kennedy and Lee Schafer contributed to this report.) ©2021 StarTribune.

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by Hal Bernton

Skipper Kevin Ganley spent most of the summer and fall pulling a massive trawl net through the Bering Sea in a long slow search for pollock, a staple of McDonald's fish sandwiches.

Supply Chain The fish proved very hard to find.

"We just scratched and scratched and scratched," Ganley recalls. "It was survival mode."

Ganley's boat is part of a fleet of largely Washington-based trawlers that have had a difficult year as they joined in North America's largest single-species seafood harvest. Their catch rates in 2020 during the five-month "B" season that ended Nov. 1 were well below long-term averages.

They also encountered more skinny, small fish — fit for mince but not prime fillets — than in a typical year, according to a federal review of the season.

Meanwhile, COVID-19 greatly complicated the essential task of keeping crews healthy as one company, Seattle-based American Seafoods, was hit with outbreaks on three vessels. The pandemic also resulted in the cancellation of some research surveys that help scientists measure fish stocks in a body of water that has been undergoing climatic changes as temperatures warm.

This has added an unwelcome element of suspense as crews start their COVID-19 two-week quarantines before the Jan. 20 start of the "A" season.

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Though the weather often is rough, these winter harvests typically offer prime fishing as the pollock come together in the southern Bering Sea before spawning. But the disappointing fishing in the last half of 2020 has put Ganley on edge about what he and his four crew members will find when they drop their nets.

"This is the best time of year," said Ganley, who captains the 123-foot American Beauty. "If they are not there, we're in trouble."

Ice platform During the past decade, the fleet's average annual haul of pollock has tallied more than 2.88 billion pounds.

The huge fish populations that sustain such harvests result from the remarkable Bering Sea productivity, which has been driven — in part — by seasonal ice that can act as a giant platform for growing lipid-rich algae at the base of the maritime food chain.

In 2018 and 2019, amid a warming trend, there was scant winter ice, and summer Bering Sea temperatures — even on the ocean bottom — soared by as much as 12 degrees Fahrenheit. In those two years, fishery scientists noted all sorts of ecological changes, including pollock and Pacific Cod migrating in much greater numbers to the northern Bering Sea and into Arctic portions of the Chukchi Sea. Biologists and Alaska Native villagers also observed increased die-offs of some sea birds and marine mammals.

In 2020, an initial cooling trend enabled ice to form across a broad swath of the Bering Sea, and by March exceeded long-term averages. But the ice was thin and quickly fell apart amid storms and warmer temperatures. By early April, when longer spring days help spur algae blooms, it was gone from much of the sea.

"That was the time of year when ice should have been near its maximum, and we had this dramatic fall off," said Rick Thoman, a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher who tracks the ice formation and movement.

During the rest of 2020, sea temperatures continued to rise. Though the warming was not as intense as in 2018 and 2019, it still was well above long-term averages, and some sea bird die-offs continued, according to a federal ecosystem report.

COVID-19 disruption In a typical year, a series of surveys by federal fishery scientists help assess the algae bloom, the distribution of commercial fish species and the abundance of copepods — small crustaceans that are a key source of food for young pollock.

But as the pandemic took hold in the spring, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, headquartered in Seattle, canceled five of six research cruises amid concerns about the potential for COVID-19 outbreaks at sea.

"After much deliberation we determined that there is no way to move forward with a survey plan that effectively minimizes risks to staff, crew, and the communities associated with the survey," said a statement released in May by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

But scientists still found innovative new ways to collect some data.

Fishermen, for example, helped in taking bottom temperatures with equipment they brought on board their vessels. And scientists figured out a way to roughly measure the pollock abundance through acoustic sonar mounted in three Saildrones, which are remote-controlled 20-foot boats.

They were developed by Alameda, California-based Saildrone, and are powered by a mix of wind, solar and hydro power from turbines turned by the motion in the sea. The crewless vessels left California in mid-May and traveled 2,200 nautical miles to the Bering Sea, where they spent much of July and August conducting the pollock survey.

Alex De Robertis, a NOAA Fisheries scientist, said the Saildrones had previously been used for survey work in the Arctic, and he was able to quickly develop the Continued on next page.

US home prices see top gains since 2014

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U.S. home prices rose by the greatest rate in more than six years in November.

Nationwide prices were up 8.2% from November 2019 levels, according to a new reReal Estate port by CoreLogic.

“The housing market performed remarkably well in 2020 despite the volatile economic state,” Frank Martell, president and CEO of CoreLogic said in the report.

“While we can expect to see lingering effects of COVID-19 resurgences and subsequent shutdowns in the early months of 2021, vaccine distributions and stimulus actions should revitalize economic activity and keep home purchase demand and home price growth strong.”

Among major cities CoreLogic tracks, Phoenix had the largest year-over-year price increase of 12.6%.

Austin led home price gains in Texas with a 9.64% annual increase.

In the Dallas area, prices were almost 6% higher than a year earlier. And prices were up 6.8% in the Fort Worth area.

The largest price hikes are coming for the most affordable homes – properties that appeal to first-time homebuyers.

“The demographic tailwind has arrived as Generation X and millennials drive housing demand,” said Dr. Frank Nothaft, chief economist at CoreLogic. “Lower-priced home values increased about one and a half times faster than higher-priced home values in November, as first-time buyers tend to seek out homes within the lower price ranges.”

A severe shortage of homes on the market has caused competition for properties and accelerated home price growth.

CoreLogic is forecasting smaller home price increases for the new year.

Nationwide prices are expected to be up 2.5% by November 2021.

Dallas-area prices are expected to have small gains this year.

And CoreLogic predicts that the Houston area will see a price decline of 1.4% by November 2021. ©2021 The Dallas Morning News.

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Mall of America no longer delinquent on its $1.4B mortgage

by Nicole Norfleet

After falling months behind on the mortgage of the Mall of America during the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the mall's owner has modified the terms of the $1.4 billion mortgage and is now Retail current on the loan.

"The past ten months proved incredibly challenging for everyone," Mall of America said in a statement Monday.

The Triple Five Group, MOA's owner, the owner of the country's largest mall, had first started missing mortgage payments in April after the mall had to temporarily close due to the pandemic, according to data firm Trepp, which tracks commercial mortgage-backed security loans. Follow-

ing an initial grace period, the loan for the Mall of America has continued to be delinquent for months, but is now current as of December.

"Facing these unprecedented economic times, we immediately began to work with our lending partners to address the cash flow issues created by this loss of revenue," MOA said in its statements. "We are pleased to have been able to resolve the outstanding issues to the satisfaction of all parties involved, which included a modification of the loan terms."

The Mall of America was closed from mid March to June and has suffered from a decline in foot traffic like shopping centers across the country. More consumers have avoided visiting stores in person due to

the risks of the coronavirus, many turning to online sales.

With the drop in sales at the mall, many tenants have had trouble making rent payments which has negatively affected shopping center owners. Retail tenant collections at the Mall of America hit a low of 33% in April and May, according to Trepp.

The mall also has had to lay off more than 200 employees.

In May, Mall of America representatives said the mall's revenue had dropped 85% during the closure and that the mortgage had been submitted to a special servicer in hopes of reaching an agreement on changes to the terms of the loan.

In August, Trepp reported that the mall owners had entered into a cash man-

Continued from preceding page. survey plan for pollock when the pandemic took hold. He comes up with the survey instructions for the Saildrones, and then the development company directs their movement.

"The whole thing worked liked clockwork. It's amazing," De Robertis said.

Ganley said he twice spotted the craft — bright orange in color and with distinctive fins — as they crisscrossed the fishing grounds. Initially, he thought they might be piloted by some adventuresome sailors until he drew close.

"I think it's brilliant," Ganley declared.

"That's our hope, scientists like that."

Information gap The Saildrones' data made a significant contribution to the annual federal assessment of pollock stocks that helps determine the harvest level for the upcoming year.

But the Saildrones did not have any trawl nets. So they could not replicate another part of survey work that involves netting fish and assessing their size, weight and age.

That information gap means there is more uncertainty about what's happening to the pollock stocks and why many fishermen struggled to find older, bigger pollock during the summer and fall harvest. Some of these fish may have moved farther north in a continuation of trends of recent warm-water years. But a planned trawl survey of the U.S. portion of the northern Bering Sea was canceled.

Fishermen's experiences of the past year also pointed to other ecological changes, perhaps resulting from the warming trend that has benefited some species that have moved into traditional pollock harvest zones.

Ganley said he noticed far fewer humpbacks and other whales in the area where he searched for the scarce large pollock.

And sablefish, also known as black cod, turned up in the nets of pollock fishermen in much greater quantities. The final fleet tally of these fish — prized for their rich, oily fillets — was 3,459 metric tons, which was more than 34 times the quantity caught just three years earlier. This was a problem because the tonnage far exceeded the pollock fleet's allocation. Therefore, much of it — under federal rules — had to be discarded.

"It's tough. There were a lot of small ones that we were catching, and you had to

pick them out of the nets and throw them overboard," Ganley said.

The pollock fleet's dramatically higher take of sablefish enraged other fishermen who make a big part of their livelihoods from catching black cod with longlines set along the bottom with baited hooks.

"This is unacceptable by any standards and threatens the health of the sablefish resource throughout Alaska," wrote Raymond Douville, an Alaska longliner, in testimony submitted in December to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. "The trawl fleet is being allowed to trash one resource in order to profit for themselves."

Fewer shore leaves The pollock fleet started 2020 in a kind of splendid isolation as they worked the winter Bering Sea harvests with crews who left their shoreside homes before the COVID-19 pandemic had gained much momentum outside of China. But the risks of the novel coronavirus were demonstrated in May when an American Seafoods factory trawler, fishing for hake off the Washington coast, had one crew member report feeling sick. Subsequent testing then indicated 85 out of 126 crew were infected with the virus.

In the months that followed, the owners of most pollock boats — both the larger factory ships and smaller catcher boats — were able to prevent coronavirus infections from coming aboard their vessels.

That was accomplished with 14-day quarantines, which became the standard for all crews.

American Seafood vessels initially had opted for quarantines of as few as five days, but after the spring outbreaks switched to the 14-day quarantines. But the company continued to have problems in the summer fishing season in the Bering Sea when 85 of 119 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus during a stopover in the Unalaska port in the Aleutian Islands.

That vessel then had to temporarily stop fishing and docked in Seward, Alaska, where infected crew members disembarked.

The coronavirus also created new tensions in the fleet's relationship with shoreside communities that are ports-ofcall. Alaska public health officials were concerned about the potential for infected crew members to spread the virus in remote

areas with few health facilities. Meanwhile, boat operators were wary that their crew might pick up the virus onshore and bring it to sea.

This made port stops, once an opportunity for crews to savor a rare restaurant meal, far more austere. Ganley required his crew to stay aboard the vessel through most of the 2020 fishing season. He is hopeful that sometime this winter his crew can get vaccine shots. Until then, he plans to repeat the prohibition on shore leaves. ©2021 The Seattle Times.

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agement forbearance agreement, which included additional reporting requirements and monthly remittance of cash. In the months since, the mall has continued to collect past due rent as the mall discussed a longer-term resolution.

Since then, Triple Five and the special servicer have been working on the longterm resolution. According to Trepp, starting with the December payment, the loan was converted to interest-only through maturity.

Lenders have remained confident in the long-term success of the Mall of America, the mall said.

"While the coming months will continue to present unique challenges, we remain optimistic for our business and look forward to the day when we can once again welcome back visitors from around the world," the statement said.

The pandemic exacerbated an already well underway disruption in the retail sector and pushed several large retailers, including J.C. Penney, into bankruptcy. As a result, malls also have been suffering, including Burnsville Center.

The Mall of America, one of the country's premier shopping destinations, is in a different category because of its entertainment options and the amount of tourists it attracts, but the mall also has felt the impacts of the disruptions. ©2021 StarTribune.

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A $1 million three-year grant will allow the Nebraska Extension to expand the Double Up Food Bucks program for SNAP recipients, bringing more grocery stores and farmers markets across the state into the program. The Extension’s partner, the Nebraska Community Foundation, will serve as the grant recipient and caretaker of the funds. The USDA’s Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentives Program awarded $500,000 to the foundation for expansion of the program. Children’s Hospital, CHI Health, the foundation and the university pitched in to match the USDA’s $500,000, bringing the grant total to $1 million.

Hy-Vee, Inc. launched its new Hy-Vee Plus premium membership. The cost of the program is $99 per year. The Hy-Vee Plus premium membership will offer exclusive benefits such as select monthly offers and coupons; free Hy-Vee Aisles Online grocery delivery (a $9.95 per order savings); free Hy-Vee Aisles Online two-hour express pick-up (a $9.95 per order savings); a personal concierge service; and more.

Customers currently enrolled in the existing $99 Hy-Vee Aisles Online membership program will automatically be upgraded to a Hy-Vee Plus premium membership at no additional cost.

BrokerTech Ventures has launched its international expansion by pledging to counsel and advise the Israeli InsurTech Accelerator operation fueled by the foundational guidance of members from the BrokerTech Ventures leadership team. Partnering with BrokerTech Ventures, the Israeli InsurTech Accelerator will serve as a feeder system into the BrokerTech Ventures US Accelerator, which just closed applications November 30, 2020. Known as the “startup nation,” Israel is home to major tech companies and insurance carriers with over 6,000 active startups. InsurTech Israel’s mission is to innovate within the insurance industry, connecting global insurers to next-gen startups.

Health care notes…

RTG Medical has broken ground on its 54,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art headquarters at Gallery 23 East — a new residential, retail, and commercial development located on the southeast intersection of Highway 275 and Highway 30 in Fremont.

White Lotus Group, a Midwest-based real estate development firm, is the lead developer for the project. Other team members include CRESA, DLR Group, Olsson and Ronco Construction.

Terracon has been recognized as one of the Healthiest Employers of Nebraska by Springbuk, a health intelligence software MEETINGS AND SEMINARS Friday, Jan. 15 ActionCOACH Business Coaching is hosting a Marketing MasterCLASS workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the ActionCOACH Success Center, 10828 Old Mill Road, Suite 4 in Omaha. The Marketing MasterCLASS is for business owners who are ready to take control of their marketing to drive their business. Topics include writing a marketing plan, writing effective ads, avoiding the 22 most common mistakes, moving customers up the loyalty ladder, building strategic alliances, and more. Registration is available online.

company. More than 10,000 employers from 45 U.S. cities were evaluated across six key categories: culture and leadership, foundational components, strategic planning, communication and marketing, programming and interventions, and reporting and analytics.

Activities of nonprofits…

MacKenzie Scott, formerly the wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and a team of field experts, funders and nonprofit leaders have completed a data-driven analysis of more than 6,500 organizations across the country, selecting just 384 organizations which exemplify operational efficiencies, strong leadership capacity, and a high potential for positive impact on the communities in which they serve, to receive a total of nearly $4.2 billion in varying levels of financial support. The YMCA of Greater Omaha has been selected as a recipient, and is the only nonprofit organization in Nebraska to receive this funding support.

Nurses, security officers, residents, med students, physicians, surgeons and caretakers — everyone at CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center — Bergan Mercy and CHI Health Clinic — pitched in this year to donate a new record of nearly 70,000 pounds of non-perishable food to the Siena Francis House.

In addition to the grocery items, over $30,000 was donated to be used to purchase food pantry items. Not only did departments compete against each other to raise money, organizers held several events such as selling almost 2,000 Krispy Kreme Donuts, hosting an ugly sweater contest, and raffling off gift baskets.

The Cooper Foundation approved 11 grants in December totaling $179,293, awarding grants to a diverse group of arts, civic and community engagement, education, and human services programs. Grants include: Asian Community and Cultural Center, Lincoln Orchestra Association, LUX Center for the Arts, Metropolitan Opera/Nebraska Auditions, OutNebraska, Community CROPS, Educare Lincoln, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, Nebraska Wesleyan, and Big Brothers Big Sisters Lincoln.

Arts and events…

Metropolitan Community College will host the 36th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 14 at noon. The virtual event will feature keynote speaker Maurice J. Hobson, Ph.D., associate professor of African American Studies and historian at Georgia State University. He’ll deliver the address, “The King of the World: Dr. Martin Luther King and the Power of Public Memory.”

The celebration will also feature musical entertainment from Jason Wagner II, Chad Stoner and other artists. The event is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. Attendees may visit zoom.us/j/98143434039 at the scheduled start time.

The National Willa Cather Center is presenting its second Virtual Nebraska Author’s Showcase on Jan. 15 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The evening will include readings and discussion with four Nebraska writers. Kate Gaskin, Lisa Fay Coutley, David Philip Mullins, and Jim Reese will share excerpts from their most recent publications, as well as engage in a discussion with viewers about what it means to be contemporary Nebraska and Great Plains authors.

Admission is free to Willa Cather Foundation members and $5 for non-members. Registration is at www.WillaCather.org. Ticket holders will receive a Zoom link.

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A Hastings, Neb. native, Tonniges is also a graduate from Colorado College. With a diverse professional background, Tonniges has a passion for helping others. She has been heavily involved with area organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Omaha Performing Arts, Papillion La Vista Community Theatre, Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce, Sarpy CASA, Voices for Children and many others. “We’re thrilled to welcome Emily to our Immanuel family,” said Eric Gurley, Immanuel president & CEO. “Emily’s strong philanthropic spirit has already been a great asset for our Community Foundation, a fund that is an integral part of our mission of service.”

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