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Omaha-based Completely KIDS, a nonprofit celebrating its centennial year, is taking an enhanced approach to its mission of educating and empowering children and families to create a safe, healthy, successful and connected community. The 173-employee organization has completed a $11.3 million renovation and expansion of its downtown Omaha building — a move long-time Executive Director/CEO Penny Parker said was crucial to her organization’s enhanced programming.

“We’re now taking a much more holistic approach — it’s a social work model that Jane Addams (legendary founder of Chicago’s Hull House) advocated for more than 100 years ago,” Parker said. “You cannot impact the child unless you can engage the parent.”

The Completely KIDS annual budget is just over $5 million.

In addition to the bevy of Continued on page 7.

Executive Director and CEO Penny Parker … Renovation of facility has paved way to enhanced programming and outreach.

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Ocuvera technology aids hospitals during pandemic with fall prevention

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There are nearly 1 million patient falls each year with many resulting in injury and some even proving fatal, according to Steve Kiene, CEO of Lincoln-based Ocuvera, a technology company that designed a complex video-based monitoring system where computers use artificial intelligence to monitor patient

behavior to reduce fall risk.

“Falls cost hospitals over $6 billion annually, with indirect costs related to falls totaling as much as two to three times more,” Kiene said. “Many of the methods to prevent falls that are standard in most health care facilities, like bed alarms and in-room sitters, are outdated or not as effective Continued on page 7.

From right, co-owners Chris Petersen and Mike Kennedy in front of The Sanctuary … Taking the guesswork out of camping with luxury, glamping units.

Kimberly Creek Retreat creates a unique, luxury glamping experience

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CEO Steve Kiene … Sophisticated video monitoring devices a game-changer in health care system for fall prevention.

To compete with Mahoney State Park and Platte River State Park, Kimberly Creek Retreat co-owners Chris Petersen and Mike Kennedy knew whatever they built had to be unique.

The first six of potentially 20 units are just that, from geodesic domes to European pods to wood cabins, each “glamping unit” has an individual personality. The last two units added,

for example, where both built from the same 16-foot by 24foot blueprint, but have distinct personalities. “[The Ranch] is more rustic and the exterior is barnwood that was taken off a barn in Griswald, Iowa, with tin around the bottom,” Kennedy said.

“The Sanctuary grabs your attention from the beginning; the whole front side is one Continued on page 10.

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Leadership, consulting services resonate as Revela’s clients shift to anticipate the next normal

by Michelle Leach

Succession planning, leadership development, and strategic guidance had been keeping Omaha-based Revela Group busy. But, in the back of owner Andrea Fredrickson’s head, she was well aware of what the models were

Revela Phone: 712-322-1112 Address: 1508 Leavenworth St., Omaha 68102 Services: leadership training, consulting, assessments Website: RevelaGroup.com

saying — a “light recession� (probably not a depression) was on the horizon. Even the most talented soothsayers couldn’t have predicted what was ahead. “Recent history shows how quickly an industry can be disrupted,� Fredrickson said. “We’ve been having lots of conversations with people who are saying their ability to be resilient and work through the storm has been directly impacted by the amount of development and conversations they’ve been having. They’ve been identifying people who can work through the messes.�

On the front-end, the leadership training, consulting and assessments firm at 1508 Leavenworth St. was doing a lot of coaching. “[Clients] are getting their teams back together again, whereas they were doing damage control or survival things in the beginning,�

Owner Andrea Fredrickson ‌ “People don’t grow when things are stable.â€? Development, consulting firm helps partners see disruption as an opportunity for personal, business improvement.

Fredrickson said. “When we talk to clients, we to expect the ups-and-downs and the response choose to use the language of the ‘next normal.’ to the next normal has to be, ‘We’ve got a new There will be many ‘normals.’ It’s a season, not rhythm here. We can do it.’ Earlier on, it was a short event. You can expect moderate tem- limiting thoughts: ‘We can’t work remotely.’ peratures and then it’s 80 degrees. People need ‘We don’t have funds for payroll.’�

Suddenly, remote work was a must — because there wasn’t a choice. “They went from limiting to action-forward thoughts,â€? she said. “People’s concerns now are the supply chain. They’ve reduced their inventories ‌ people are fearful of what lawsuits may come out of this. But, overall, people are hopeful.â€?

Fredrickson sees both moderately innovative groups, whereby changes were easy, as well as those that had to build more agility and adaptability into their groups. “It also means cutting through the bureaucracy within their own organizations to get stuff done,� she said.

Fredrickson’s team at Revela Group always had virtual courses to accommodate clients outside of the metro. That said, they’ve added free webinar series and videos, targeted toward senior execs and “everyone else.â€? “We’re doing less face-to-face and more video conferencing events,â€? she said. “Because our routines have been disrupted a little bit, the team meets virtually every morning. We never did it before, because our schedules weren’t set up that way ‌ it allows us to be even more agile.â€?

More people are taking the time to do personal development, such as work on emotional intelligence, or reading — beneficial to Revela as the team authored the book, “Insight Unseen,â€? which explores the ‘lenses’ executives must look through to have 20/20 business insight. • Midlands Business Journal/one year ($75) “There is a lot more time being spent on social, blogs and podcasts — people have more • MBJ/two years ($140) time to do that,â€? she said. “A lot of execs are also • MBJ/three years ($190) starting to see this season is shifting. What’s the next normal? How do they prepare the team? A lot of people are researching and asking, ‘How LOOKING FOR BACK ISSUES do I thrive coming out of this?’â€?

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Fredrickson also noted work with organizations on communication; as she puts it, “The more things change, the more you need to communicate.� “Even if nothing has really changed, you need to let people know that,� she said.

For example, Southwest Airlines Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly’s approach; he puts out two or three videos weekly, regardless of the extent of organization-wide or industrywide changes. He also takes questions. “People don’t grow when things are very stable,� Fredrickson said. “With disruption, you work and learn from it. On the other side of it, you can look at all the things you’ve learned. So, how can you take this disruptive time and make that change and continuous improvement, and make that part of your culture? That way, you can be way ahead of the competition.�

As a true partnership, Fredrickson stresses a culture takes time to adjust — it’s not an event.

It’s about building new behaviors. “Whatever goes on in our head, comes out in our actions,� she said.

Revela Group’s culture includes a team whereby most serve on at least one board — from Boys Scouts of America to the Nebraska Humane Society. “We also do a lot of volunteer work as teams,� she said. “We might pack lunches at a kids camp, or do the MS walk. Then, we have a program called GameChangers.�

The program accepts nominations for nonprofits that would like to send associates to a Revela leadership course. In addition to the class, award recipients/organizations are also featured on a video on the Jumbotron at the intermission of an University of Nebraska at Omaha hockey game, and perks include additional marketing and social media materials to get the word out about their work.

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O’Neill Potts makes a difference in boardroom and community at Valmont

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The first indications of Kari O’Neill Potts’ future came pretty early. The vice president and group general counsel for Valmont Industries recalls forming her career plans in elementary school.

“I think my mom has something I wrote in second grade saying that I wanted to be a lawyer,” she said with a laugh. “At that time, it was because I liked to argue and I had grand illusions of saving the world.”

O’Neill Potts made good on that childhood promise, graduating with high honors from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in business and from Creighton University School of Law, summa cum laude, in 2005.

For the past decade she’s been with Valmont, climbing the ladder to her current position in which she oversees all legal functions of the company’s utility division.

Among her job duties are litigation management, employment issues, commercial transactions, compliance issues and merger and acquisition activity.

“An in-house legal career fit me particularly well. I have, essentially, one client that I could learn and dig into and get to know the business. I loved the business side of things,” she said. “It’s been a really wonderful experience getting to learn my client’s business, the strategy behind how the business side of things is going to occur, the commercial markets, et cetera.

“Sometimes, it can be very tough, because legal has to make decisions that might impede a business decision. I find it exciting to try to think of it from a way of, ‘OK, how can we have this happen? How can it be from a legal perspective and a business

perspective and be the best solution for the company?’”

O’Neill Potts said she also finds the people side of her job rewarding, particularly the chances she has had to affect new and younger workers.

“I’ve noticed a real energy coming into Valmont from the younger generation adding a real vibrancy and energy to the company with their new ideas,” she said. “It’s been fun to see their new ideas injecting a certain energy into the company.

“It’s also been fun to be a woman joining the leadership team within Valmont. In the time that I’ve joined the team four years ago, I’ve ended up getting three additional women added to our division’s leadership team. It’s been really exciting. Our city, our industry, our company; everything’s moving in the right direction as far as innovation and new ideas and inclusion.”

In addition to her work career, O’Neill Potts has built an impressive record in the community. She said as a native to the city, staying invested in her hometown has always been a priority, namely through Girls, Inc., Mentor Nebraska and Partnership 4 Kids.

“I went to Omaha North High School and there was a really strong sense of giving back at Omaha North from a lot of adults,” she said. “I found that not only did I have one person making sure I succeeded, many times I had several people.

“I’ve been fortunate enough to have somebody mentor me in one way or another and I saw how critical it was to my success.

I think it’s really important that every child, young adult and, honestly, every adult has that opportunity. I’ve been drawn to organizations that help facilitate that.”

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July 3, 2020

Beyond taxes: Current environment highlights accountants’ value as advisers

by Michelle Leach

Changes in recent months are driving new approaches to collaboration and communication, operational efficiencies, bolstered relationships with other types of advisers, and the ability to retain top talent regardless of geography.

Client work is as diverse as the organizations that these firms represent. “Many of their businesses have increased due to demand of their services, while others have slowed as a result,� said Hamilton Associates ManHamilton ager Eric E. Hamilton. “Presently, we are working with our clients on several areas including PPP loan forgiveness, cash flow analysis and tax planning for the remainder of 2020.�

With cash remaining king, BKD Partner Nate Scott said a lot of clients are focusing on the basics of conditioned cash flow so they can pay their employees and vendors. “I have many contacts in my network, whether they are attorneys and bankers or loan officers, I’m working with all of them through the [Paycheck Protection Program],� he said; frequent program changes were referenced on

for instance, staff that craved retail experience from a partner with expertise in the sector, could just pop into the colleague’s office. “Team collaboration is now planned,�

Harr said. “It’s less flexible, versus popping your head into someone else’s office.�

Nate Scott, partner at BKD CPAs & Advisors. these and other trusted sources. by having this virtual office to connect with Scott also referred to clients’ working their all of the parties,� he said. way through the healthy backlogs that they had Going forward, O’Donnell, Ficenec, Wills built up prior to the crisis. & Ferdig Partner Gregory A. Harr indicated And, while Scott indicated face-to-face the configuration of accounting offices will visits are preferred when possible, virtual be different; some individuals will continue visits are presenting opportunities, partly to to work from home. bridge miles; for instance, an ag client whose Firms must be flexible, measuring prochildren are geographically scattered can have ductivity and leveraging software tools. Harr a cohesive discussion, rather effortlessly. also referred to how team collaboration has “We don’t have to try to organize calendars changed in a work from home environment;

Harr Hayes Hayes and Associates founder and President Frank Hayes spoke to balancing the “normal� accounting, audit, consulting and tax services with the new PPP loan applications, including documentation to support loans and to interpret regulations as they were issued. “We also assisted with developing revised projections due to the impact of COVID-19, so that good financial decisions were made,� he said. “The biggest concern was whether their business would survive. Another was continuing to pay employees to avoid losing good people. The biggest need was maintaining good cash flow where revenues were negatively impacted due to COVID-19. In that light, we were sought out to assist with managing cash flow and minimizing the outflow of cash.�

Longer term, Hamilton sees the current crisis as highlighting the breadth of accounting services — it’s more than just tax prep, bookkeeping and auditing. “The fact that we are an adviser to them and can help navigate an array of financial needs will have a lasting impact,� he said.

When asked for food for thought, Hamilton encourages clients and employers to never give out personal information if one receives calls or emails from someone claiming to be a government agency or financial institution. “Verify first and, if you are still unsure, ask your accountant, investment adviser or attorney,� he said.

On a positive note, Scott sees the virtual office as a big benefit for recruitment and retention. “We might have employees that are with us for a couple of years and then they get married or go back to their hometown and they’re no longer in a location where BKD has Continued on next page.

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Elevating advisory services within the accounting industry

by Gabby Christensen

Over time, the accountant role has continued to evolve to meet the changing needs of businesses.

Dan Torczon, director at Hancock & Dana, said clients increasingly look to accountants to provide services beyond the normal compliance services.

“These include consultations regarding tax planning, cash flow projections and the various options under stimulus packages available,” he said.

He said this change has been occurring

Beyond taxes Continued from preceding page. its offices,” he said. “What we’ve learned over the last three months is when we’ve worked remotely, we have continued to be efficient.”

In the past, Harr said clients could just drop off materials. They might fill out forms in front of advisers, who could then interject with the likes of, “I know you bought a new home. I don’t see anything in the paperwork about your buying this home.”

Advisers know this information because they know the client.

“Clients had to come in the front door and drop off materials in special place,” he said. “I miss that personal contact. It’s changed. We have to be better fact-finders with regards to questions. It’s less personal.”

“Most of our staff has been working remotely since March,” Hayes said. “One of the concerns with remote work is that people don’t communicate as well as they otherwise would, but we seem to have been able to continue to adapt.”

for a number of years, and the recent pandemic has only intensified the pace of change.

“For many clients there was a period of

“Reporting, forecasting and budgeting are less time consuming with the aid of software,” she said.

Torczon Miller time when it was unclear if they could ever open again, and it was very important to them that we could provide timely information on their options under the stimulus packages passed by federal and state leaders,” he said.

Additionally, Torczon said analyzing the tax planning opportunities available under the CARES Act is also in high demand.

Natalie Miller, CPA/business advisory and outsourcing senior manager at Seim Johnson, said it’s no secret that accountants are often perceived as the detail-oriented number-crunchers.

“While we have always been advisers, it is often not the first thing people think of when they hear ‘accountant,’” she said.

“However, technology is automating many basic accounting tasks, which provides information and creates time to enhance our advisory services.”

For example, Miller said accounting software can match transactions directly to the bank statement.

Marsh Becker Miller said the time saved utilizing these technologies creates a greater opportunity to analyze information and provide solutions-driven advice.

“We are continuously evaluating options to make accounting a smoother process and to equip clients with the information they need to make the best decisions for their company,” she said. “We are no longer just tax preparers, auditors and number-crunch-

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ers. We are leveraging technology to provide strategic analysis and give business owners more financial insight.”

Andrew Marsh, CPA and manager at Frankel Zacharia, said COVID-19 has drastically impacted the role of CPAs. “Fast-paced legislative action and economic stimulus packages required CPAs to stay up-to-date more than ever before in order to assist clients in a timely manner to navigate available aid,” he said. “In the Vokt near-term, COVID-19 created a backlog of work for many accountants in the public accounting sector, but ultimately provides a great opportunity to deliver valuable services advising clients while continuing the annual tax and audit services we provide.”

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Recent events accelerate use of accounting software, apps

by Dwain Hebda

Even before the new coronavirus, technology was transforming the accounting industry, say local experts. However, the onset of the pandemic has spurred use of these new tools.

“COVID accelerated [technology] adoption by clients, and even firms, but we were headed down this path regardless,” said Ryan Wade, software solutions manager for Lutz.

“Anything that can be automated is going to be automated; the real service is the value-added advice that helps clients make the

right decision.

“We’re leveraging technologies that help us more easily exchange information with clients, infusing robotic process automation so we’re not having teams of people just checking boxes. We’re having robots do that for us and using people in much more proactive ways.”

Wade said the company has deployed technology to serve a variety of purposes.

“One [category] is client safety and the other category are tools to gather data and prepare tax returns or financial statements based

on GAAP or IRS requirements,” he said. “We usually use a combination of big providers’ technologies and then piece together other types of solutions for clients that may not only be tax clients, but also use our other services.”

Incorporating technology is more than

Elevating advisory services within the accounting industry Continued from preceding page. maintaining compliance work.

“This is where the future is headed,” he said. “We’re doing a lot more in business valuations, succession planning and wealth management.”

Becker said data analytics — essentially converting a client’s data for planning and projection purposes — is also a hot topic in the industry right now.

“We’ve seen evolving technology for the past few years, but the combination of these capabilities and the COVID-19 pandemic has really accelerated the rate of change and allowed us to step up our advisory services as it relates to the CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Program,” he said.

Amid the pandemic, Becker said the profession has also found new ways to communicate with clients, including hosting webinars.

In recent years, Becker said outsourcing accounting services has been a very fast growing area in the industry.

Jeremy Vokt, managing partner at Bland & Associates, said accountants are working to become more consultative and look ahead when talking about a client’s financials.

“More accountants are helping their clients plan for the future,” he said. “Accountants are now starting to look at all the client’s data, accounting and non-accounting, to assist with that future planning a nd analysis.”

Vokt said another change has been the need to embrace cloud-based solutions for clients, which has led to clients and accountants becoming more efficient in the work both sides do.

“Before the COVID-19 pandemic, these changes were moving at various paces throughout the CPA industry,” he said. “I believe because of the pandemic these changes will have to occur at a much quicker pace.

With less social interaction, more working from home and people just thinking outside the box to just do their job will cause the accounting industry to change at a much quicker pace.”

Wade Morris just signing up for the latest widget. Doug Morris, manager of McFarlin and Brokke, said his firm reconfigured operations to maximize the effectiveness and safety of its technology.

“We adopted DocuSign, we pay for secure email transmission, we contract IT security

providers to monitor emails for phishing attempts,” he said. “We obtain an email address from every client [and] those clients are notified on how to provide their information to prepare tax returns, sign engagement letters, due date reminders. We have several other internal forms that indicate a client’s preference on items like sending and receiving information via fax or mail.”

Morris said as convenient as technology can be, human expertise and oversight remains critical components of exceeding client expectations.

“Quality control is a huge issue, especially as more employees work from home.” he Storer said. “We have two sets of eyes on virtually every job; one set of eyes to do the work and another set to review it. We also have internal checklists to remind our staff to check elections that may yield a client a better tax benefit, to check if they’re Continued on page 11.

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Expansion gives Completely KIDS avenue for holistic programming

Continued from page 1. classes and programs at Completely KIDS’ 32,000-square-foot building at 2566 St. Mary’s Ave., the organization is also increasing its outreach in offering meals and neighborhood-specific programs for students and families at 15 after-school locations.

The programming, specialized for K-8 grades, includes assistance in both discipline-area instruction as well as help in emerging needs such as overcoming

Completely KIDS Phone: 402-397-5809 Address: 2566 St. Mary’s Avenue, Omaha 68105 Services: educate and empower kids and families to create a safe, healthy, successful and connected community Founded: 1920 as Camp Fire Girls by Luther Gulick Employees: 173 full and part-time One-year goal: Maximize use of building to include more after school parent classes as well as day and early evening programming.

Industry outlook: Virtual programming is a must due to pandemic.

Website: www.completelykids.org

language barriers and beginning use of Chromebooks. For secondary-age students, a teen employment program is run, as well as instruction on financial literacy, and preparation for success in trade school or college.

Parker, a native of Hubbell, Nebraska, who came to Omaha in 1972, and has led Completely KIDS (formerly Camp Fire Girls) since 1991, said several classes including English as a second language, general education diploma, nutritional studies, cooking — among others — can involve both youths and parents.

“Mindfillness,” teaching and exhibiting the skills of working under stress, is receiving more attention and Parker said there may be growth opportunities for Completely KIDS in more offerings of mental health-related services.

Earlier in her career, Parker worked with families dealing with adoption, foster care and child abuse issues.

She answered calls on the former Parent Assistance Line.

Parker, who earned a Master of Social Work degree from University of Nebraska at Omaha, started her professional career in north Omaha with Douglas County Social Services. Additional career stops included Nebraska State Department of Social Services, Child Saving Institute and the American Red Cross.

“Through the years we’ve used flexibility and creativity but in doing so we’ve remained true to our mission,” she said.

“We’ve changed with the needs of society and built a strong donor base.

“With the pandemic now we’re figuring out innovative ways to serve kids.”

For example, the nonprofit is seeking $46,000 in donations to purchase 80 laptops and other technology needed to virtually provide services. Completely KIDS is also aiming to strengthen its programming, especially with parent classes, during day and early evening hours.

Ten years ago, Completely KIDS rolled out its first weekend food program, which was piloted with 75 children at nearby

Jackson Elementary. This fall, the program is expected to feed 900 from 15 schools with Omaha Public Schools, but also at three homeless shelters, All Saints School and the Ronald McDonald House. A partnership with Hy-Vee has been important in its growth.

Homework Diner, a unique Thursday evening program brings parents and kids in for a meal, and with the help of volunteers — including teachers and college and high school students — enables the kids to get help with their homework. Parents learn strategies to better monitor studying

at home.

“We want the parents to understand that they have a critical role in helping their kids perform accidentally,” Parker said.

What is now Completely KIDS was founded a century ago in Omaha as one of the nation’s first chapters of Camp Fire Girls.

Emphasis was placed on community service and developing an appreciation of outdoor activities in young girls.

Boys were admitted beginning in 1975.

In the 1980s safety education programs to educated children on sexual abuse and peer pressure were added in area schools.

A subtle transition began away from the club concept by providing services to build self-sufficiency in kids from low income neighborhoods.

Services to children in homeless shelters began in 1991 and the first after-school program was started for immigrant children.

More resources were placed in after-school and safety education programs.

The move from the Camp Fire model to those of an independent entity occurred over a seven-year period beginning in 1991. The transition to the Completely KIDS name was finalized in 2011.

Ocuvera technology aids hospitals during pandemic with fall prevention

Continued from page 1. as nurses need them to be.”

In contrast, Ocuvera’s technology combines real-time, automated, predictive, video-based and 3D algorithms.

“The predictive nature of the Ocuvera system is one of its key differentiators in a market that largely consists of reactive solutions,” he said. “We understand that AI is best when it is designed with people in mind, to empower them to do their job better, not to replace them. AI automates

Ocuvera Address: 1430 South St., Lincoln 68502 Service: automated video monitoring (AVM) system featuring predictive alerts and live video aimed to prevent patient falls Employees: 15 full-time, as well as a few part-time Founded: September 2016 Goal: Expand to additional hospitals and continue to improve patient care.

Website: https://ocuvera.com

the most tedious aspects of the nurse’s job, freeing them to spend their limited time on the most important decisions.”

While the process for the product began in 2012, the company was officially founded in 2016. Ocuvera now has 15 full-time employees, who are all based in Nebraska, as well as a few part-time team members.

Ocuvera’s customers are hospitals in the United States with nurses being the end users.

“Particularly over the last few years, as we’ve been starting to see real results from the hospitals that use our system, it’s been thrilling to see real numbers on the impact we’re making on the problem of patient falls,” Kiene said. “Nurses are telling us what they love about using Ocuvera — it’s like an extra set of eyes that effectively lets them be two places at once and gives them confidence that they’re keeping their patients safe.”

Yet, designing, prototyping, sourcing, manufacturing, assembling and testing complex electronic hardware is a uniquely complex, time-consuming and costly endeavor, he said.

“Inventing software methods and algorithms that didn’t exist before requires tremendous amounts of research and data to turn ideas into working solutions,” Kiene said. “Doing both at the same time under the same roof, for an industry as regulated as health care, creates a very complex set of challenges.”

As AI gains more attention, Ocuvera is

The Ocuvera AVM system in use. (photo courtesy of Ocuvera) riding the wave of enormous activity and investment in the field.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he said the majority of team members have been able to work from home. Being a technology-centric company, the shift to remote work, video meetings and sales calls has been a big efficiency gain for the team.

Additionally, Ocuvera has been utilizing its 3D printer to print face shields and other PPE during this time.

“We think our technology can help in hospitals dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks right now, since it allows nurses to use audio and video to monitor their patients without having to enter the room and potentially expose themselves to infection,” he said. “A couple of our partner

hospitals have been using the system this way already, and we’re working on putting together a study to show that our system can reduce contact effectively.”

Since its inception, Kiene said the Ocuvera team has been more focused on measuring impact rather than revenue — and that impact continues to grow substantially.

“Right now, we’re focused on expanding to new hospitals and getting our fall risk reduction technology in the hands of as many nurses as possible,” he said.

“Long term, we believe we can be part of a movement to leverage technology in the hospital room to greatly improve individual patient care, while lowering costs and increasing nurse satisfaction.”

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REGIONAL LANDSCAPES

COVID-19 business updates…

Located in Benson, iBeaute Studio and Academy at 6572 Maple Street, celebrated its grand opening days before metro area businesses were required to close their doors in response to global pandemic, COVID-19. The studio specializes in skin and body treatment services with an emphasis on accessibility.

Shanika Tolbert, who lives with fibromyalgia, wanted to ensure that everyone —​no matter ability — would be able to indulge in a spa experience. In addition to spa services, the studio offers one-on-one training classes for licensed estheticians, cosmetologists, and barbers looking to rejuvenate their career.

Local McDonald’s owner-operators are donating 4,000 medical masks to the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha. The Ronald McDonald House Omaha provides vital resources and compassionate care to children and their families being served at local hospitals. McDonald’s distribution partner, EARP Distribution, is donating an additional 10 cases for a total of 4,450 masks. This donation is in response to a shortage due to COVID-19 and provides a year’s worth of medical masks for the house. In all, McDonald’s is donating more than $68,000 towards COVID-19 relief funds to organizations across the Midwest.

As companies bring employees back to the workplace during the pandemic, Omaha-based Specialized Air & Hydronic Balancing is helping businesses follow the new Centers for Disease Control guidelines for fresh air flow in the workplace. Since the 1970s, buildings have been sealed up to conserve energy. As a result, this has created a situation where fresh air in buildings can be limited. With COVID-19 and with the CDC now stating that air exchanges should be increased, building owners need to know what their fresh air number or rating is.

This is not only important to help meet the new COVID-19 CDC guidelines, but also to help create a safe, productive and healthy work environment.

Governor Pete Ricketts and state officials provided updates on several new grant programs. Combined, the programs will award $387 million in grants, using federal coronavirus relief dollars. The new programs will be administered by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development in partnership with the Nebraska Departments of Labor and Agriculture. Programs include: The Small Business Stabilization Grant, The Workforce Retraining Initiative, The Nebraska Broadband Grant and The Gallup Back to Business Learning Journey. A website has been created with information about these new grant programs, including eligibility requirements, how to apply, application deadlines, and frequently asked questions.

The Nonprofit Association of the Midlands has asked Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts to declare additional funding for nonprofits as part of the Coronavirus Relief Fund. NAM called for transparency and accountability in how the state distributes the federal money to help identify the greatest areas of need and ensure the public has confidence in how it is distributed. Ricketts recently outlined how Nebraska will spend its COVID-19 funding, which includes more than $1 billion in the CRF. Ricketts’ plan for the CRF includes $392 million for business grants to help pay for operating expenses and $85 million for the Community CARES program to help support nonprofits.

Briefs…

NebraskaLink, a fiber-based network, will begin operating under a new name and will be known as OPTK Networks, effective immediately. The company’s ownership and staff have not changed. NebraskaLink started 10 years ago by building a state-of-the-art fiber-based network in Nebraska and as the network continued to evolve and thus the areas NebraskaLink served changed.

RDG Planning & Design invited five new senior partners, four new partners and 16 new stockholders into its ownership. Each May, the firm celebrates new ownership advancements, recognizing those employees who demonstrate exceptional professionalism and commitment to their craft. The following individuals have been elevated to Senior Partner: Collin Barnes, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C | Interiors (Des Moines); Matt Coen, AIA | Architecture (Des Moines); Catrina Cook, IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED AP | Interiors (St. Louis); Kelley Hoffman, NCIDQ | Interiors (St. Louis); and Laura Kessel, PLA, AICP, LEED AP | Landscape Architecture and Planning (Des Moines).

Riekes Equipment has been recognized

by Yale Materials Handling Corporation with the 2019 Dealer of Excellence Award. This annual award honors Yale Dealers that have exhibited focused leadership and continue to drive their customers to the highest level of performance in all functional areas of materials handling. To receive the Dealer of Excellence award, Yale dealers must meet rigorous business practice standards and performance criteria, which are assessed and modified annually to ensure alignment with evolving customer expectations and heightened industry demands.

Supportworks, a product designer and supplier to the home repair industry, is the first company in Nebraska to complete a rigorous certification process, Certified Evergreen. The Certified Evergreen mark is a commitment to lead a company according to seven principles that include being purpose driven, remaining privately owned, profitable, and putting people first. Certified Evergreen status is evaluated and administered

by Tugboat Institute.

Werner Enterprises, a transportation and logistics provider, has been named a 2020 Green Supply Chain Partner by Inbound Logistics. This annual list recognizes 75 companies that go above and beyond to ensure their global supply chains are sustainable and their operations are environmentally friendly.

Werner will be profiled in a special G75 issue of Inbound Logistics. Since 2007, Werner has reduced its carbon footprint by more than 3.2 million tons and saved more than 287 million gallons of fuel. In 2019, Werner was named a SmartWay High Performer and SmartWay Excellence winner for its efforts to produce more efficient and sustainable supply chain transportation solutions.

Education notes…

A recent study led by Mikaela Cherry, a doctoral candidate in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources, found that winter precipitation reloads most of the state’s groundwater supply. Learning when groundwater is recharging, Cherry said, could reinforce current efforts to limit how much nitrate reaches the supply. Cherry started her doctoral program two years ago, and her adviser, groundwater Continued on next page.

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REGIONAL LANDSCAPES Continued from preceding page. hydrologist Troy Gilmore, told her about a trove of data collected in 2011by former Husker faculty member John Gates, who coordinated with Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts to gather nearly 800 groundwater samples from across the state that year.

The Metropolitan Community College Financial Counseling program has been approved by the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education as a Registered Education Program, joining other four-year schools across the nation. The announcement makes the MCC program the first community college to offer its students a streamlined pathway to the Accredited Financial Counselor certification. The MCC Financial Counseling program can be completed entirely online, giving students the opportunity to earn a degree remotely while earning transferrable college credit.

Creighton University’s Joan Lappe is one of 19 nurse researchers worldwide who will be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. Creighton’s chapter of Sigma Theta Tau nominated Lappe.

She is internationally recognized for her longitudinal research funded by the National Institutes of Health on the effects of calcium and exercise on preadolescent-through-adolescent bone development; her Department of Defense study of the effects of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on prevention of stress fractures in female Navy recruits in basic training; and in two NIH-funded randomized clinical trials of the effects of calcium and vitamin D supplements in populations of postmenopausal women.

Two University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers have received $1 million in grant funding to continue research that could lead to the development of vaccines and genetic-selection tools to fight some of the world’s costliest swine diseases. Researchers Daniel Ciobanu and Hiep Vu have been awarded a three-year, $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. It is the third NIFA grant for each.

Health care notes…

Nebraska Cancer Specialists is open-

ing a clinic in the Think Whole Person Healthcare building located in Aksarben on 71st and Center streets in Omaha. Nebraska Cancer Specialists’ and Think’s mission and vision are aligned to offer convenient access to current and future patients. Joel Michalski has begun seeing patients on the third floor in the Think Whole Person Healthcare building. The new clinic will feature: consultation appointments, follow-up visits, side-effect management, genetic counseling, nutrition services, referrals to NCS providers for mental health counseling, occupational therapy, financial advocates, social work, and clinical trials.

A scientific study on the results of the drug, remdesivir, used to treat patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus, has been published. University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine infectious disease physician, Andre Kalil, is one of the authors of the study. He led the study at UNMC where the first study participant in the United States was enrolled — a study that began Feb. 21, and subsequently enrolled 1,063 participants in 10 countries. The randomized, double-blind study found patients who were given remdesivir had a significantly faster recovery time. The median time to recovery was 11 days for patients treated with remdesivir compared with 15 days for those who received placebo.

Visiting Nurse Association of Pottawattamie County has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Charles E. Lakin Foundation to provide support and education to families in need. The three-year grant will be used to support the Early Childhood Home Visitation programs and physician-directed home visits.

The programs provide home visits by nurses, social workers, and/or parent coaches to assist at-risk women, children, and young families residing in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.

Pregnant and parenting teens and women in high-risk situations have the greatest need for services.

Regina Idoate, Ph.D., UNMC College of Public Health and citizen of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and Omar Rahman, MMI Department of Genetics, have received a $50,000 grant to work with the community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,

the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Oglala Lakota County Schools in South Dakota to conduct a community readiness assessment. Drs. Rahman and Idoate teamed with Lisa Spellman, UNMC media specialist and member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, to approach tribal leaders about the project — called “RE-AIM: Readiness and Education for American Indian Maternal and Child Health” — designed to increase awareness and knowledge about prenatal health, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and mobilize the community to reduce the impact of FASD. Omar Rahman, M.D., director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Genetics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is part of a group that has created a training manual in both English and Spanish designed to help health care providers recognize and diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Dr. Rahman’s colleagues included Maristela Monteiro, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization; Christie Petrenko, University of Rochester Medical Center and Mt. Hope Family Center; and Diego Gomez, Creighton University. The 55-page handbook, now available in English and soon to be available in Spanish, features sections on prenatal exposure, dysmorphology, neuropsychology, the diagnostic process, and case-based learning modules. The handbook is particularly valuable because FASD often goes undiagnosed.

Activities of nonprofits…

United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County’s Board of Directors approved a total of $2,217,497 to go out into the community in support of education, income and health initiatives and programs. The majority, $1,846,735, will help fund 65 programs at 41 community based nonprofit agencies. United Way’s funding reflects its understanding that the issues facing our community are interconnected. By investing in each of the areas below, the organization can comprehensively benefit children, individuals and families within our community.

June is PRIDE month and Google. org is donating $1.2 million to more than 70 organizations around the world. These organizations improve the lives of LGBTQ+

people in cities where they operate. Heartland Pride in Omaha is the recipient of a $20,000 grant from Google. Heartland Pride works to celebrate and promote the history, diversity and future prosperity of the LBTQIA+ community of the Heartland.

Arts & events…

The Sarpy County Museum will be hosting its annual quilt show again this year, this time with a few changes, from July 7 to August 15. All quilts in the show come from the museum’s personal collection, with quilts ranging from the mid 1800s to recent years.

To see the quilt show, visitors must contact us to schedule a time.

The Omaha Storm Chasers and Centris Federal Credit Union will host a showing of “50 Summers” at Werner Park on July 10. Gates will open at 6 p.m. with the documentary scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. 50 Summers, produced by Hurrdat Films, features the Omaha Storm Chasers, and embeds with the front office staff on Opening Day of their historic 50th season. The film will be shown on the video board in left field and those in attendance may sit on the outfield grass. Concessions will be open. Tickets are on sale online. A limited number of picnic tables, including six tickets per table, can be purchased for $60.

MEETINGS AND SEMINARS Thursday, July 9 Gener8tor, in partnership with The Combine and the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, will launch its first annual OnRamp Agriculture Conference at the CHI Health Center in Omaha. More than 200 startups are anticipated to apply for one-on-one pitch meetings with key global agriculture corporations and venture capital firms. As part of the successful, vertical-specific OnRamp Conference Series, the OnRamp Agriculture Conference is a national conference for the agriculture and food industry’s top innovators and dealmakers. The conference will highlight innovations disrupting the agriculture industry, spotlight the leaders making innovations, and forecast how new technologies and business models will transform the sector.

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Kimberly Creek Retreat creates a unique, luxury glamping experience confident they will be able to book them.

“We were building [The Sanctuary and The Ranch] and we didn’t really have a track record with that style so we didn’t even know if we could book them,” Peterson said. “Halfway through building The Ranch bookings picked up so that before we had finished building The Sanctuary it was booked for the first 40 nights.”

Every unit was booked for the entire month of June, aside from one unit on June 27. Guests have already started booking for upcoming holidays, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, as well as the following summer.

In the early days Peterson said most guests came from Omaha, which then expanded to Lincoln and is now pushing farther out towards South Dakota and Iowa.

“Our repeat business, we’ve learned a lot of them by name,” Kennedy said. “We don’t know everyone, but there’s definitely people who feel like thy have a second home here.”

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Arguably the most unique units, the Retreat has gained a lot of attention for its two geodesic domes, the King Dome and Queen Dome — both featuring bay windows and lofted beds.

The King Dome, which is four feet taller than its counterpart, has a spiral staircase to its loft and sleeps six.

The dome’s bay windows keep guests

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coming year-round, especially in winter when guests want to watch the snowfall from the comfort of a warm getaway.

Glamping, the owners said, is becoming more popular because it relieves some of the guesswork for parents, families or friends who want to get away for the weekend, but don’t have the time or experience to plan a camping trip.

Nearly 88% of its bookings come from women who are planning family vacations, girls nights or other occasions. Most units, aside from the domes, also allow dogs, making it easier to bring the whole family.

While each unit varies, either with décor or structure, each comes equipped with glampling essentials, including: indoor bathrooms, heating and air conditioning, propane fire pits and grills, kitchenettes, and perhaps most important, comfortable beds.

“Our definition of glamping is that you can show up with a little bit of food, a change of clothes and a toothbrush and have a great time,” Petersen said.

Situated in between Omaha and Lincoln, the Retreat is about 40 minutes away from each city, and has plenty of activities nearby at Mahoney State Park, downtown Ashland, the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, and the Wildlife Safari Park all within a 10-minute drive.

“The other thing is there’s a winery in downtown Ashland and one on the outskirts as well as Soaring Wings, so people come out and do an all-day wine tour,” Petersen said.

There are also trails that cover parts of the property’s 40 acres.

The Retreat has also hosted a wedding in its Grotto, as well as graduation parties, birthday parties and family reunions. The Grotto also serves as a meeting place for guests to mingle.

“Just like the camping culture, glampers want to talk with each other, some don’t, but many of them want to share the experience and that’s another reason we have the Grotto,” Kennedy said.

Prior to the pandemic the plan was to host live music and other events in the Grotto to encourage guests to mingle. The Grotto also has a large firepit and plenty of benches and chairs, perfect for s’mores parties.

The problem with hosting parties and events at the Retreat is the unpredictable weather in Nebraska. At present there aren’t any large

While made from the same blueprint as The Sanctuary, The Ranch has a more rustic vibe with repurposed barn wood from Griswald, Iowa. shelters that could serve as a reprieve from a container unit or a multiplex in the future.

Whatever the structure, the owners are downpour. That, however, will be changing in the next couple of months when the Reception Center is finished.

The center will solve several other problems for the Retreat, including storage space, upgrading the laundry facility and potential office space for employees.

“It could become a rentable space as well because we’re talking about putting in a kitchen and there’s going to be a handicap accessible restroom, which could set us up for our liquor license,” Kennedy said.

With just over a year under their belt, the duo is considering what the next units will look like.

While they’d love to have tiny houses and/ or tree houses, regulations and zoning pose major hurdles and could limit some of the posThe spiral staircase in the King Dome leads to a loft with two queen beds. It features sibilities. It may be more likely to see a shipping a king bed on the main floor, as well as a kitchenette and an indoor bathroom.

Challenges, changes abound in trucking industry

by Dwain Hebda

The Midlands trucking industry is undergoing transformational change between the race to adopt technology, find personnel and deal with COVID-19.

“In the very upstart of the pandemic, there was definitely disruption in the working environment for professional drivers,” said Derek Leathers, president and CEO of Werner Enterprises. “By nature, their work environment is secluded, however, the support network of truck stops, restaurants and rest areas quickly became unstable. Drivers found themselves struggling to find resources for their basic needs while out on the road.

“We immediately reached out to our vendors, customers, truck stops, restaurants and other partners urging them to help support all drivers and they responded without hesitation.

We shipped hand sanitizer and other supplies immediately to all our terminal locations for distribution to drivers.”

Leathers said health concerns aren’t the only challenge brought on by COVID. “The economic downturn certainly presents challenges,” he said. “As the country starts to reopen and shippers come back online, there’s a lot that needs to smooth out within their supplier’s supply chain as well. We will go to great lengths to support our customers in any way that we can as the economy ramps back up.”

Another challenge to the industry is labor, both for drivers and other trained personnel.

But while demand still outpaces the number of

qualified personnel available, there are signs the facts about a trucking career is getting through, said Kevin Ingalls, diesel technology instructor with Metropolitan Community College.

“Interest in diesel technology is high,” he said. “The fundamental classes that are taken first usually have waiting lists and this is especially true for MCC high school career academy students. Other classes also have wait lists from

Leathers Schreiner time to time.”

Most students are aware of the job market and wages for diesel technicians, Ingalls said, created by an aging existing workforce.

“The average age of existing technicians is getting higher and many of those technicians are retiring or going into management, sales or teaching which creates openings on the floor,” he said. “The local job market is very good as certificate holders and AAS graduates will have a job lined up, usually from internships, and most students will be employed well before

they graduate.”

Ingalls said the level of technology in trucks has never been more advanced and that goes for other aspects of operations in today’s trucking companies. Computerized solutions such as Roger are steadily making inroads into what has been a notoriously paper-heavy culture.

“Bulk freights, certainly in the ag space, have not really adopted technology and it has run very manually. A lot of folks are doing the same things they’ve done for 50 years,” said Jeff Schreiner, Roger, LLC CEO. “Roger is a technology, mostly powered by mobile apps, that helps bulk carriers unlock the power of the network by streamlining the communication and reducing the paperwork.

“What we solved with Roger as an ecosystem was to really consolidate the need for an industrywide use of technology to organize all of the data that it leverages and it creates efficiencies along the whole supply chain. That’s a major improvement over where we’ve been for a long time.”

Schreiner said the future of the technology is nearly unlimited, particularly at this point in history.

“Think about no-touch; Roger is all paperless,” he said. “You drive through the scale, you’re not going in an office, you’re not exchanging paperwork. While we didn’t design it two years ago thinking global pandemic, we had adoption rates that increased by double digits because a lot of these groups were looking for solves to keep people out of the office.”

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How COVID-19 is forcing restaurants to improve the to-go experience

by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz

It didn’t take long for Pete Ternes to learn that a good restaurant does not automatically make for a good takeout operation.

His brewpub in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, the Restaurants Bungalow by Middle Brow, tried valiantly to keep churning out its signature thin-crust pizzas for a to-go audience during the first week of the state’s stay-at-home order in March.

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But the demand overwhelmed the kitchen, which wasn’t used to 300 orders coming in at the same time. Wait times stretched to 90 minutes.

“Our customers were angry and gathering into a nice friendly mob outside,” Ternes said.

He paused, regrouped, and soon Bungalow shifted to selling pizza kits, gourmet pantry goods, homemade bread and fresh produce from local farmers.

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reopen, and in the next week or two he plans to fire up the ovens again for a takeout program with a limited number of pizza slots that people can reserve in advance.

“The new norm will be highly dependent on takeout still,” Ternes said. “It will be a while, we presume, before people jam restaurants again.”

Restaurants built around the bustle of communal dining had to embrace takeout when the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to close their dining rooms. They streamlined menus to focus on dishes that travel well, added little gifts to make meals more memorable, and bundled ingredients together to function more like premium grocery stores.

Many of those changes are expected to stick even as restaurants start to welcome customers back to patios and eventually, to dining rooms in limited numbers. Consumers had been gravitating toward more takeout before the pandemic, and the health crisis has left restaurants with little choice but to get creative to replicate the restaurant experience at home.

“I think what’s going to come out of this is that takeout is going to be better,” said Kevin Boehm, co-owner of Boka Group, whose slate of acclaimed restaurants include Girl & the Goat and Swift & Sons in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. “What is the Michelin star version of the way we package our stuff?”

Boehm is confident the spectacle and human interaction that attracted him to the restaurant business will return. But longterm, he expects takeout to generate more revenues than before “now that we’ve learned to do it well.”

At Girl and the Goat-ceries, customers can preorder meal kit packages and watch virtual cooking videos with Chef Stephanie Izard. GT Prime, a steakhouse, has been converted to an Italian concept temporarily because Italian food is more of an everyday choice. The brasserie Bellemore has added takeout choices that include a family style jerk chicken feast. Handwritten thank-you notes, signed by staff, are included in each order.

Though the high-end meals come without the high-end ambience, takeout pricing is the same as dining in because rent and bills haven’t changed and sales are just 20% of what they normally are, Boehm said.

Takeout pricing is even higher at some restaurants because of the additional costs of packaging and third-party delivery platforms, a premium that customers for now, at least, may be willing to pay for the safety of eating from home, said Doug Roth, CEO of Playground Hospitality, a consulting firm.

Restaurants are unlikely to recover their dine-in revenues anytime soon as people remain wary of congregating, and in-dining experiences will have capacity limits in phase four of the state’s reopening plan.

According to a Zagat survey of nearly 7,000 people, just a third of respondents said they plan to return to restaurants the week they reopen, and among those staying away, 20% said they plan to wait three months.

Bars and restaurants pushed to sell cocktails-to-go to help them stay afloat. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker this month signed a law that allows pickup and delivery of cocktails in sealed containers, but it is subject to local approval. The Chicago City Council license committee has approved the change but the full council has yet to vote.

“This is another revenue stream that we’ve never had the opportunity for, and that will be a game-changer,” said Julia Momose, creative director at Kumiko. “In a year from now, I think it’s going to be so much a part of our business model that it will be built into future business models. This is just something that can help us all so much.”

Takeout had been growing fast long before the pandemic, as technology enabled more working and shopping from home, said David Portalatin, a restaurant analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

In January, carryout visits grew nearly 3% compared with a year earlier, drive-thru grew 4% and delivery grew 1%, while on-premise dining was flat, he said.

Stay-at-home orders “probably fast-forwarded where the trend was already going,” Portalatin said.

In April, delivery was up 115% from the prior year and drive-thru was up 19%. Traditional carryout fell 21% as people opted for takeout options with less interaction.

Interest in takeout is expected to persist as people cocoon, like they did in the comfort-seeking years after 9/11, Portalatin said.

US Foods, a restaurant distributor based in Rosemont, has been helping restaurants move takeout from a sideshow to center stage. Early on, many restaurants that were proud of their in-restaurant brand and plating “felt like they were sending leftovers to people’s home,” said Jim Osborne, senior vice president of customer strategy and innovation.

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The pandemic has not only affected firms in implementing or expanding their technology, it’s also impacted how clients adopt these tools.

“I think it’s very much changed over these last three to four months,” said Tony Storer, manager with HBE. “Some generations, generally older generations, were more about wanting to sit there and wanting to see you and talk face to face. The change has been bigger for them than for Generation X, which are used to everything at their fingertips.

“It’s definitely shifted everything towards being able to do things remotely, but the younger generation is light years above where other people are, because they were used to it and that’s what they wanted.”

Storer said as ubiquitous as technology is becoming, it’s still not likely to be the be-all mode of doing business in the industry in the near future.

“Do I think it’s going to change everything? Yes. But I don’t think it is necessarily going to be the norm, because I think there’s still a lot of situations where we still need that personal interaction,” he said. “I would hope we don’t lose that personal interaction; sometimes you have to be face-to-face to understand somebody and to understand everything that’s going on.”

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Fearful commuters on trains, buses hold one key to US recovery

by Ryan Beene

Masks are mandatory on subways and buses in Washington. San Francisco is betting longer trains will help riders social distance. Crews disinfect New York’s trains daily — stations twice a day — and are testing ultraviolet light devices to see if they kill Covid-19 on Economy surfaces.

As states gradually reopen, transit agencies are taking steps to coax back passengers who’ve been told for months to avoid just such tight quarters with strangers — an effort that will ultimately influence the economic recovery.

“For certain businesses teleworking isn’t really an option, so we still need

to figure out ways to get those people to work,” said Ed Mortimer, vice president of transportation and infrastructure at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Especially in urban areas, where many people don’t own cars, mass transit will be crucial to reviving economies. But enticing passengers back on board may require adding trains and buses so people can space themselves further apart — adding stress to agencies already reeling from declining ridership and rising cleaning costs.

The one-two punch of lower revenue from fewer riders and steeper cleaning costs has devastated the finances New York City’s transit system, which has left only a quarter of the nearly $4 billion in federal

aid received in March. Those funds could be exhausted next month, and the agency is urging Congress to approve additional emergency aid.

“This is going to be an ongoing issue that agencies are definitely going to need some financial assistance from all levels of government to get through this difficult time,” Mortimer said. “But it’s all a balancing act in how do we make it work.”

Health experts say that the very nature of mass transit — efficiently moving large numbers of people in confined spaces — presents inherent risks.

“The greatest risk occurs when you’re in close contact — within six feet — with someone from outside your household for

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Takeout also has presented a different cash flow reality, as high-margin items like iced tea are generally not ordered to-go, Osborne said. Restaurants can make up for it by charging for extras, like adding bacon or avocado to a burger, or replacing a cooked rib-eye with a steak kit, with all the ingredients for a DIY grilling session, but charging the same.

Some restaurants have been better equipped than others to handle the shift.

The Lou Malnati’s pizza chain adopted curbside pickup at its 60 restaurants to keep people out of its lobbies during the pandemic, and it has been such a hit among customers that the plan is to keep it for good.

“They love being able to stay in their car and listen to the radio station while they wait for the pizza to come out,” said Marc Malnati, chairman of the chain and son of its founder.

Though the chain’s takeout business is booming, overall revenue is still down because of the closed dining rooms, which normally provide half of sales, Malnati said. Restaurants will have to up their takeout game if they want to survive limited-capacity dining rooms until there is a vaccine, he said.

“At 50%, dining rooms don’t make it,” he said. “They just do not make it. They have to have other ways.”

At the Bungalow by Middle Brow, Ternes is counting on a hybrid model to provide financial stability, so that “at any moment we can push more on the restaurant lever, the grocery lever or delivery lever.”

It is acquiring more refrigerator space and reconfiguring its dining room to accommodate the grocery items and improve the speed with which those orders can be filled.

The hybrid model could become more lucrative than the original business model, Ternes said. Groceries provide bigger profit margins that can help subsidize the restaurant side of the business.

“What’s cool about having the slate wiped clean is that we can slowly put the pieces together,” Ternes said.

Roth, of Playground Hospitality, said the moment will favor smart restaurateurs who can adapt quickly. But there is a learning curve with doing takeout well.

They have to figure out what travels

well, the packaging to put it in and instruct customers on how to reheat the foodproperly to maintain the quality, Roth said. There is, as far as he knows, no good solution for keeping french fries crisp on their journey to people’s homes.

Most importantly, he said, restaurants have to figure out how to take their brand to go and create an experience that makes the price tag worth it.

“How do you put the concept in the bag?” Roth said.

Dineamic Hospitality, whose restaurants include Siena Tavern and Barrio in River North, spent hours figuring out how to “make our delivery food look as beautiful as our dine-in food,” with nicer plastic cutlery and packaging and numerous other touches, said co-owner Luke Stoioff.

When the company realized pizzas travel better uncut, it included a branded pizza cutter. Pastas come with a branded cheese grater. All orders come with a free cookie and a card that says “You’re a smart cookie for ordering from us.”

Some of those touches will be permanent legacies of the pandemic, Stoioff said.

While takeout, which comprised just 5% to 7% of Dineamic’s sales pre-pandemic, helped keep people employed the last couple of months, the company’s large dining rooms need to be open to make the business model work, Stoioff said. Sales are down 90% from normal, though the recent reopening of its patios should help.

Amaru, a Latin American restaurant in the Wicker Park neighborhood, had been open only eight months when the state’s stay-at-home order began. As it shifted its focus to takeout, it created family dinners at much lower prices than its usual menu — $30 for four hefty servings of pollo al carbon with rice, beans and kale salad — to keep employees working and help customers eat well during the pandemic.

“That was our way to support our neighborhood and the people around us,” said chef-owner Rodolfo Cuadros. “We’re trying to feed people healthy stuff they wouldn’t normally eat — garbanzos, vegetables, rice.”

The restaurant is breaking even on the family dinners, with any potential profits eaten up by third-party delivery platforms that take big commissions, Cuadros said.

Still, the dinners have been so popular that he plans to keep them on the menu, at the same price point, for the foreseeable future.

He is also preparing his small restaurant to reopen its dining room, which used to get

jam-packed on Friday and Saturday nights with people who squeezed into rows of two-top tables. Now he is building booths, separated by wipeable curtains, to comply with social distancing requirements, and is getting rid of bar seating. He will be able to seat less than half as many people as he could before.

“We hope to get people back into our place,” he said. “There’s nothing better than talking to people, the feel of the restaurant when it’s full of people and you have music playing, it’s hard to duplicate with anything else. It would be a shame if I couldn’t feel that again.”

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a prolonged period of time,” said Hilary Godwin, dean of the University of Washington’s School of Public Health. “Really crowded buses and crowded subway systems obviously are things that we’re going to be worried about.”

Rush-hour crowds won’t appear overnight, Godwin said. People will return to their offices gradually, while companies and governments in many places continue to ask people to work from home if possible.

IBM Corp. polling of nearly of 30,000 U.S. adults between mid-April and early June found more than one in five typical transit users said they would no longer do so, and nearly a third said they’d use it less, the company said in an email.

If a lack of ridership forces service cuts, the effect could be widening the divide between those who have the flexibility to work at home or the means to drive cars, versus those who must report to work and have no alternatives to public transportation.

“It just becomes more likely than transit agencies will say maybe we just need to provide less frequent service, and then the people who really rely on it have a big mobility problem,” said Deborah Salon, associate professor at Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.

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Coronavirus pandemic job losses falling hardest on people who were already hurting

by Paul Roberts

Before the pandemic shut down much of the economy, Logan Madangure had come to see Seattle as a city of opportunity.

Although the 24-year-old Zimbabwean native arrived in Seattle three years ago with only a high-school education and has struggled with the city’s Economy high living costs, he had little trouble finding jobs, often several at a time, in the bustling hospitality sector.

That changed abruptly in March, when Madangure’s employer, a local cruise company he declined to name, temporarily closed. Now, Madangure doesn’t know if his job as an onboard bartender will return, or where his future lies in a labor market he worries is even more divided between haves and have-nots.

While many white-collar workers in the city have been “able to continue their careers working from home” during the pandemic, Madangure says, his own job prospects are “on hold.”

Madangure’s observations will be familiar to many workers in Seattle and across the state who have lost jobs during the pandemic.

Where previous recessions killed jobs across many industries and demographic groups, layoffs in the COVID-19 era often have been concentrated among workers who were often behind economically before the pandemic. Among them, working moms, younger workers, and workers who are less educated, lower-paid, and non-white.

In King County, Wash., where Black residents account for around 6% of the total population, Black workers make up around 11% of recent layoffs. That’s according to a new report by Washington STEM, a Seattle-based nonprofit that has analyzed weekly, or “continuing,” claims for jobless benefits filed by unemployed workers during the pandemic.

By contrast, white residents, who make up 63% of the county’s population, have accounted for just 48% of pandemic-related unemployment, Washington STEM found.

One factor: Pandemic-related layoffs struck earliest and hardest in sectors where Black workers were already over-represented. That includes food service and lodging, as well as in personal service, such as hair salons, and gig work, says Andrea Caupain, CEO of Byrd Barr Place, a Seattle-based nonprofit that works with low-income families. “Low-wage workers in those industries were the first to go,” Caupain says.

The pandemic’s economic disparities also show up in other demographic categories. King County residents 34 or younger, who account for roughly 37% of the population, based on statewide figures, make up almost 42% of continuing jobless claims in King County and statewide.

Gender is another dividing line. Where the Great Recession of 2008-09 was nicknamed the “man-cession” because layoffs were heavy in male-dominated sectors, like finance and construction, the COVID-19 recession has been harder on women.

In King County, women have filed 51% of ongoing jobless claims, even though they represent 46% of the county labor force, according to Washington STEM. One reason is that pandemic-related

layoffs were concentrated in sectors where women outnumber men, such as the service industry, says Anneliese Vance-Sherman, a regional labor economist for the Employment Security Department who tracks the Seattle area.

For example, the health care sector, where women hold nearly four of five jobs nationally, saw massive layoffs early in the pandemic. Likewise for the leisure and hospitality sector, which is around 70% female. In downtown Seattle, much of the hotel sector has shut down, with total revenue down 95% through mid-June over the same period last year, according to the Downtown Seattle Association.

Another strike against working women: As the pandemic shuttered many childcare centers and schools, parents — often mothers — took over many childcare and education duties. In King County, total licensed daycare capacity is down 28% since February, and one in three providers is at risk of permanent closure, according to Child Care Aware of Washington.

Nationally, women with children were 45% more likely than men with children to move from full-time work to part-time work between February and April, according to a new study by Ben Cowan, an associate professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University.

These disparities point to another economic signature of the COVID-19 recession — income inequality.

During the Great Recession, Wall Street was among the first sectors to see job losses, followed by housing and construction. That meant “a lot of upper-income white-collar, college-educated people” lost their jobs,” says Debra Glassman, principal lecturer of finance and business economics at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. But “that’s not the plot line for the current recession.”

Instead, Glassman says, the first waves of pandemic-related layoffs struck heavily among workers in lower-paying jobs that don’t require a college education.

In King County, a third of continuous jobless claims have been filed by people with the equivalent of a high school degree or less and a median income of $36,508, according to Washington STEM and 2018 U.S. Census data. Yet that demographic group represents barely a fifth of the county population.

By contrast, workers with a graduate or professional degree, whose median income is $93,213 and who make up a fifth of the county’s workforce, filed just 7% of ongoing jobless claims, according to Washington STEM and census data.

In other words, layoffs often struck hardest among those who could least afford to lose their jobs. “I don’t have savings,” said Katie Brodkin, 37, of Seattle, who lost her job as a pediatric dental assistant in March. Without the governor’s eviction moratorium and a timely tax refund, she and her 6-year-old son “would have been out on the streets.”

That points to yet another key difference with this recession: job mobility.

Workers whose jobs couldn’t be done from home were more than twice as likely to be laid off than their work-from-home peers in King County, according to Washington STEM.

To be sure, these disparities could change with time. Glassman thinks that the longer the recession lasts (Washington is still seeing historically high levels of layoffs), the more we can expect additional layoffs in high-paying sectors.

Even by May, the state was seeing more initial jobless claims by workers in high-salary sectors such as tech and finance — though at least some of those claims were likely fraudulent.

But because layoffs have declined steadily in recent weeks, the demographics of the job losses are unlikely to significantly change.

In fact, Washington STEM’s data shows that in demographic categories such as race, gender, and age, disparities have actually widened over the course of the pandemic.

And those disparities will probably linger in the post-COVID economy.

For example, employment recovery will be much faster for information-related sectors, such as tech, where jobs more easily moved from offices to homes — and where layoffs were less frequent to begin with. By contrast, sectors that have taken the biggest beatings are also likely to take the longest to return to pre-COVID-19 job levels.

That’s clear in the healthcare sector, where many non-essential clinics have been slow to re-open. Brodkin says her clinic can’t bring her back full-time until September.

Similarly, bars and restaurants that survived the shutdown will likely be operating for some time at reduced capacity, with smaller staffs, because of health restrictions.

“I have no idea when they’re going to open back up,” says William Parham, 35, of Seattle, who lost his security job at the University Avenue location of Supreme, a pizza-themed bar. “And I have no idea if I’m even going to be called back to work when they do decide to open back up.”

Lower-wage jobs are also likely to be disproportionately affected by automation as employers try to cut labor costs in the recovery, says Vance-Sherman, the state Employment Security Department economist.

Recessions always accelerate automation, but the pandemic may push employers to use technology to lower safety-related costs, adds the UW’s Glassman. Restaurants hoping to minimize contact between

staff and customers, for example, may simply replace staff with automated ordering.

“People are extremely expensive even in the best of times and (COVID-19-related) behavioral changes are making people especially expensive,” she says.

Another obstacle to job recovery in the COVID-19 era is that workers themselves may be reluctant to return to workplaces that may not be safe.

Renee Stevens, 65, of Tacoma quit her job as a grocery store merchandiser in April out of fear of catching the coronavirus and infecting her family.

While Stevens wants to get back to work — “I’m not a person who likes to sit around,” she says — she’s still worried about workplace risks. When she visits her former employer, “probably 90% aren’t wearing masks,” she said. “It just astounds me.”

The bleak labor picture has some silver linings. The federal stimulus package enacted in March provided comparatively generous benefits for low-wage workers.

Although those benefits are set to expire in late July, some in Congress are pushing to extend them.

Some experts also see new political momentum to address job-market disparities arising from the ongoing protests over police brutality and racial injustice.

Caupain, with Byrd Barr Place, says local business leaders in sectors such as construction and real estate, where Black workers historically have been underrepresented, are now “doing a self-evaluation of the role they’ve been playing and what needs to change in the industry.”

The social justice movement has also brought new political and philanthropic support for programs aimed at improving job prospects for young African Americans through retraining and other strategies, Caupain said.

Growing support for the Black Lives Matter movement in particular has shifted how many white progressives view the long-standing economic challenges in the Black community, Caupain says. “I think we have a critical mass of people who (are) listening in a different way and want to take action,” Caupain said. “And that’s exciting.” ©2020 The Seattle Times Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF 4TBIZ, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 4TBiz, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 13410 Blondo Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68164 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF AFTERIFY, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Afterify, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 15113 Elmwood Drive, Bennington, Nebraska 68007 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 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 ALD PROPERTIES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ALD Properties, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 1328 S. 208th Street, Elkhorn, 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 Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on May 21, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 AMANDA M. BARRON, Attorney P.O. Box 597 Fremont, Nebraska 68026 LEGAL NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT(s), GREGORY A FIRESTIEN & MARY R FIRESTIEN You are hereby notified that Credit Bureau Services, Inc., a corporation, filed its complaint in the County Court of DOUGLAS County, Nebraska on 12/22/2019 on Case Number CI19-28259, the object and prayer of which is to recover the sum of $1,666.88, plus interest, attorney fees and court costs. You are required to answer the complaint of the Plaintiff on or before 07/12/2020 or the allegations in said complaint will be taken as true and judgment entered accordingly.

CREDIT BUREAU SERVICES, INC., A CORPORATION First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF INTIMILES, 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 Intimiles, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 972 S. 45th Street, Omaha, NE 68106. 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 May 13, 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION CDH Land, 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Brobst Financial, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The street and mailing 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF Betsy Laufenberg HAIR LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Betsy Laufenberg Hair LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 3226 Fairway Drive, Plattsmouth, Nebraska 68048. The Registered Agent of the Company is USCA, Inc., 1603 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68102.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 DAVID J. SKALKA, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D E W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 S. 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LOUISE LOVE LLC The name of the limited liability company is Louise Love LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124. The name and address of the initial agent for service of process is David J. Skalka, 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF AT HOME PROPERTIES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that At Home Properties, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 1820 S. 220th St., Elkhorn, Nebraska 68022. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. First publication May 22, 2020, final June 5, 2020 First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DIRECT TO OPERATIONAL CONTROL LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Direct To Operational Control, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 102 South 52nd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF NEEXCEL EXPERT, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NEExcel Expert, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 809 Stony Point Drive, Papillion, Nebraska 68046 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF EPRO COMAXX LLC Notice is hereby given that EPro CoMaxx LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under Nebraska laws, with its designated office at 16455 Madison St. Omaha, NE. 68135. 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 May 6, 2020. Its registered agent is Carlos Santos located at 1512 Monroe St. Omaha, NE. 68107.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

FREDERICK D. STEHLIK, Attorney GROSS & WELCH, P.C., L.L.O. 2120 South 72 Street, Suite 1500 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HUSKER VETERANS TEAM, LLC a Nebraska Limited Liability Company Notice is hereby given that HUSKER VETERANS TEAM, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its registered office located at 2120 South 72 Street, Suite 1500, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The general nature of its business is to engage in and do any lawful act concerning any and all lawful business, other than banking or insurance, for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Certificate of Organization was filed in the office of the Nebraska Secretary of State on January 24, 2020, the Company commenced business thereon, and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be conducted by the Managing Member.

Frederick D. Stehlik, Organizer First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF WONDER BUNCH, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization, as amended, of Wonder Bunch, LLC has been further amended to change the name of the limited liability company to Wonder Bunch Media, LLC and to change the designated office address to 1106 South 15th Circle, Omaha, Nebraska 68108. The Amended Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on May 13, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 KELLOGG & PALZER, P.C. 10828 Old Mill Road, Suite 6 Omaha, Nebraska 68154-2647 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION 1. The name of the Company is JKE Hospitality, LLC. 2. The street address of the initial designated office is 17676 Welch Plaza, Ste 9, Omaha, NE, 68135. The registered agent is Javier T. Villa and the Registered Agent's address is 17676 Welch Plaza, Ste 9, Omaha, NE 68135.

3. The general nature of the Company is a Mexican Restaurant Taqueria.

4. The Company commenced on June 15, 2020, and shall have perpetual existence.

5. The affairs of the Company are to be conducted by Members, the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers as the Members shall determine.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 CAMERON M. RIECKE, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF GLACIER SUPPLY, 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 Glacier Supply, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 25016 Emile Cir., Waterloo, NE 68069. 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 May 13, 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of a Limited Liability Company Notice is hereby given the registration with the Nebraska Secretary of state’s office of LAO Landscaping, LLC under the laws of the State of Nebraska as follows: The name of the company is LAO Landscaping, LLC. Registered agent and office of LAO Landscaping, LLC is Estanislao Hernandez at 4411 S 25th Street, Omaha, NE 68107. The designated address is 4411 S 25th Street, Omaha, NE 68107. Initial members: Estanislao Hernandez . General nature of the business is to transact any and all lawful business for which limited liability companies are allowed by statute. The LLC was organized on May 2020 for the perpetual duration and is managed by its members.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION Corporate Name: Semper Virtus, Inc. Registered Agent: Erickson & Sederstrom P.C., a limited liability organization Registered Office: 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 Authorized Number of Shares: 10,000 Incorporator: Charles V. Sederstrom, Jr. Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C., L.L.O. 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100, Omaha, NE 68114 First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

Midlands Business Journal • JULY 3, 2020 • LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Sanborn Properties, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the Company’s designated office is 11316 Burdette Circle, Omaha, NE 68164, and the name of the registered agent at such address is Michael Sanford. The general nature of the business is any legal and lawful activity allowed pursuant to the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act and the laws of the State of Nebraska and elsewhere. The Company commenced business on 03/01/2020 and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be managed by its managers.

Michael Sanford, Member First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Titan Realty, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the Company’s designated office is 846 S 21st Street Omaha, NE 68108, and the name of the registered agent at such address is Kevin Green. The general nature of the business is any legal and lawful activity allowed pursuant to the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act and the laws of the State of Nebraska and elsewhere. The Company commenced business on 01/01/2020 and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be managed by its managers.

Kevin Green, Member First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Sunhouse Global, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the Company’s designated office is 1910 S. 44th St, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68105, and the name of the registered agent at such address is Tran & Associates Law, LLC. The general nature of the business is any legal and lawful activity allowed pursuant to the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act and the laws of the State of Nebraska and elsewhere. The Company commenced business on 5/03/2019 and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be managed by its managers.

Khanh Tran, Member First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Tristar Realty, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the Company’s designated office 1910 S. 44th Street, Ste. #101, Omaha, NE 68105, and the name of the registered agent at such address is Tran & Associates Law. The general nature of the business is any legal and lawful activity allowed pursuant to the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act and the laws of the State of Nebraska and elsewhere. The Company commenced business on 01/01/2020 and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be managed by its managers.

Khanh Tran, Member First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 SEAN D. MOYLAN, Attorney 1010 South 120th Street, Suite 320 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF NEBRASKA SYNTHETIC GREEENS, LLC The name of the Company is Nebraska Synthetic Greens, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company. The registered agent Sean Moylan and designated office of the Company are both located at 1010 S. 120th Street, Suite #320, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. This limited liability company commenced business on May 13, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 JOSEPH J. SKUDLAREK, Attorney 1055 North 115th Street, Suite 301 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC The Nebraska llimited lliability company’s name is Lucky Shots Coffee, LLC. Its designated office is 17935 Welch Plaza - Suite 101, Omaha NE 68135. Its purpose is any lawful business. It commenced on May 13, 2020. Its affairs shall be managed by a Member/Manager. Joseph J. Skudlarek, Organizer First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF TRE PROPERTY LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TRE Property LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 6521 N 160th Ave, Omaha, NE 68116. The Registered Agent of the Company is Tamara Jo Eddie, 6521 N 160th Ave, Omaha, NE 68116.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 RYAN COUFAL, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF ARROWHEAD DEVELOPMENT LLC Notice is hereby given that ARROWHEAD DEVELOPMENT 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 1267 280th, Seward, NE 68134. The agent for service of process for the Company is VW Agents LLC located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118-3121.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ALLAN M. ZIEBARTH, Attorney 1702 South 10th Street, Suite 2 Omaha, Nebraska 68108 N O T I C E O F A M E N D E D / R E S TAT E D A R T I C L E S O F INCORPORATION On 05*05*2020, BOB'S HOME AND BUSINESS REPAIR, INC., filed AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION repealing and replacing its Articles of Incorporation in their entirety changing its name to : BATHROOM & KITCHEN SPECIALISTS, INC., and restating articles including the following: Registered Office/Agent: 3004 N. 76 St., Omaha, NE 68134/Robert W. Polinko Authorized Shares: 10,000 shares of US $1.00 par value First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HEARTLAND MOBILE THERAPY, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Heartland Mobile Therapy, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 15725 Madison 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 TIFFANY W. THOMPSON, Attorney 4611 South 96th Street, Suite 250 Omaha, NE 68127 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LEUCK BROS., LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, as of May 11, 2020, with its registered office at 3948 V Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68107, and with Tiffany E. Thompson, as its initial agent for service of process at 4611 S. 96th Street, Omaha, NE 68127. 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.

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ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF KING BENEFIT SOLUTIONS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that King Benefit Solutions, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 9507 South 28th Avenue, Bellevue, Nebraska 68147 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 WHITMORE LAW OFFICE LLC 7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Lisa Osler, L.L.C., has been organized as a professional limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The designated office of the Company is 10826 Old Mill Road, Suite 103A, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The registered agent of the Company is Lisa Osler, 7153 N. 39th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68112.

The Company's members, managers, professional employees and agents are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render services related to the providing of mental health services in this state. The Company was formed on June 9, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 WHITMORE LAW OFFICE LLC 7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Lindhorst Heating & Air, L.L.C. (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The designated office of the Company is 12903 Deer Creek Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68142. The registered agent of the Company is Amy Lindhorst, 12903 Deer Creek Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68142. The Company was formed on June 11, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 PATRICK M. FLOOD, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 N O T I C E O F O R G A N I Z AT I O N O F TAT E E D U C AT I O N CONSULTING, LLC Notice is hereby given of the organization of Tate Education Consulting, LLC. 1. The name of the limited liability company is Tate Education Consulting, LLC. 2. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office is 11235 Sahler Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68164, and the name and street address of the registered agent for service of process is Patrick M. Flood, 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska, 68114.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 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 SID SERVICES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SID Services, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 14747 Capital Street, Suite 1A, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on June 8, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF BUDGET TO SUCCESS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Budget To Success, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Registered Agent of the company is Ronicka L. Johnson with registered and designated street and mailing address at 6425 N 68th Street Omaha, NE 68104.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF VGW, 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 VGW, LLC. The initial designated office is 1011 North 128th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 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 to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on May 26, 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF HOMAHA SENIOR CARE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of HOMAHA Senior Care, LLC has been amended and restated. The limited liability company shall now conduct the practice of medicine. The designated office of the limited liability company remains the same at 4908 Cass Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68132. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company has changed to Koley Jessen, P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The Amended and Restated Certificate of Organization was filed on June 9, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

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 REIA, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Omaha REIA, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company remains the same at 2420 North 147th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68116. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company remains at Koley Jessen, P.C., L.L.O., 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability commenced business on June 10, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

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 SIGNATURE ENTERPRISES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Signature Enterprises, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 4529-31 S. 134th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68137. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on June 8, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

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 PARALLEL PLAN, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Parallel Plan, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on June 15, 2020.

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• JULY 3, 2020 • Midlands Business Journal

LEGAL NOTICES

ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF VX, 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 VX, LLC. The initial designated office is 1011 North 128th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 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 to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on May 22, 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 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 11302 WRIGHT LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 11302 Wright LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on June 29, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 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 HIJINKS INVESTMENTS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Hijinks Investments, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is Attn: George Morrissey, 4940 N 118th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68164. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on June11, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 MARY E. VANDENACK, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OFAMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF PATRIOT HEALTH WELLNESS COMPANY, LLC Notice is hereby given that Patriot Health Wellness Company, 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 name change from Patriot Wellness Company, LLC to 602 Merrill Enterprises, LLC. First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 MATTHEW WURSTNER, Attorney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, NE 68130 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HOPE CARE SERVICES, LLC Notice is hereby given that HOPE CARE SERVICES, LLC is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The initial designated office is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The initial registered agent is Matthew Wurstner, whose address is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68130.

The purpose of the Company shall be 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 May 22, 2020 and shall have a perpetual period of duration. The Company is to be managed by the Manager of the Company.

The initial Manager and sole member is Kathryn Roberts 5115 N. 138th Street Omaha, Nebraska 68164.

Matthew Wurstner, Organizer First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION LLVJR, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, filed Articles of Dissolution on June 29, 2020, with the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office. The terms of the dissolution provide for the payment of liabilities of the corporation and the distribution of any remaining assets. Leslie Vaughn, Jr., as President, is to manage the corporate affairs relating to the dissolution of the Corporation. Any Corporation assets will be distributed in accordance with the Corporation’s plan of dissolution and it has no known liabilities.

The Corporation requests that persons with claims against it present them in accordance with this notice. Any claimant shall send notice of a claim to the Corporation to the above address. A claim against LLVJR, Inc. will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within three (3) years after the publication of this notice.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

ROBERT J. LIKES, Attorney LIKES MEYERSON HATCH LLC 444 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SAVVY SHORES LLC Notice is hereby given that Savvy Shores 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 444 Regency Parkway Dr., #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial agent for service of process is 444 Regency Parkway Dr., #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 and the Company’s initial agent for service of process at such address is Robert J. Likes.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SING PROPERTIES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sing Properties, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 13555 South 217th Street, Suite 1, Gretna, Nebraska 68028 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF 3GP PAINTING, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 3GP Painting, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 14915 Versaille Street, Bellevue, Nebraska 68123 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 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 JW, MD, P.C. 2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of common stock having a par value of $1.00 each.

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. The corporate existence began on June 10, 2020, when Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State.

5. The name and address of the Incorporator is: John Winters, M.D., 11105 North 138th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68142.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 N O T I C E O F A M E N D M E N T T O T H E A RT I C L E S O F INCORPORATION OF ADULT & PEDIATRIC UROLOGY, P.C. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Articles of Incorporation of Adult & Pediatric Urology, P.C., a Nebraska professional corporation, have been amended to show that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue 10,000 shares of voting common stock and 90,000 shares of nonvoting common stock each with a par value of $0.10. The Articles of Amendment were filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on May 22, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SKOUT MEDIA, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Skout Media, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska, commencing business on April 29, 2020, with its initial designated office at 5806 S. 113th Street, Omaha, NE 68137. The initial agent for service of process of the Company is Ryan Pramberg, 5806 S. 113th Street, Omaha, NE 68137.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

BARBARA MEDBERY-PRCHAL, P.C., L.L.O., Attorney 10305 Joseph Circle La Vista, Nebraska 68128 JOINT WRITTEN ACTION OF DIRECTOR(S) AND MEMBER(S) OF UNBOXED MINDS, LLC Pursuant to the Statutes of the State of Nebraska, as amended, and all other applicable provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, as amended, the undersigned, being the only Member and Director of UNBOXED MINDS, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, do, by written action in place of and without a special meeting of either the Board of Directors or the Members of said Company, unanimously act and consent to such action effective on May 1, 2020, as herein noted and recorded: RESOLVED, that all proceedings of the Board of Directors and all acts taken by members of the Board of Directors or by officers of the company, including but not limited to, the payment of salaries and bonuses, borrowing funds and any and all other actions taken by the Directors and officers in carrying on the business of the company since the last meeting of Directors and Members, are hereby ratified and approved in all respects as if all such acts had been duly recorded in minutes subscribed by the Secretary and approved by the Members and Directors.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the sole member, Nick Krecklow, desires to wind up and dissolve the Limited Liability Company. The members hereby unanimously agree to wind up and dissolve UNBOXED MINDS, LLC BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers and directors be, and hereby are, directed to approve of said dissolution, and that the officers of the company be, and they hereby are, generally authorized and directed forthwith to enter into such documentation as may be required for the dissolution and winding up.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers and directors be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to take any and all actions necessary to carry out the intents and purposes of these resolutions; and that all actions heretofore taken in this regard be, and they hereby are, ratified, approved and adopted in all respects.

Nick Krecklow Director, Secretary and Member First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: NUTRIENT AGRI PRODUCTS Name of Applicant: WSA, INC. Address:1108 HICKORY HILL ROAD, PAPILLION, NE 68046 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: 02/02/2011 General nature of business: MICRONUTRIENT SALES WILLIAM A. ANDERS Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: BORROWED $$$ Name of Applicant: FIELDS, INC. Address: 7404 S. 77TH AVE, LAVISTA, NE 68128 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: JUNE 1, 2020 General nature of business: ATMs TRAVIS FIELDS Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 WHITMORE LAW OFFICE LLC 7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that M. York Jr Financial Strategies, L.L.C. (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the Company is 18710 Vinton Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The registered agent of the Company is Thomas E. Whitmore, 7602 Pacific Street, Ste. 200, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The Company was formed on June 24, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF Charred SP LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Charred SP LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 2910 Pine Lake Rd Suite N, Lincoln , NE 68516. The Registered Agent of the Company is Jason Kuhr, 2132 S 181st Circle Omaha, NE 68130.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

COLIN KASTRICK LEGACY DESIGN STRATEGIES 9859 South 168th Avenue Omaha, NE 68136 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION 4SA Notice is hereby given that 4SA, a Nebraska Nonprofit Corporation, has been incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its initial registered office at 9859 S 168th Avenue, Omaha, NE 68136, and with its initial agent for service of process and incorporator as Colin Kastrick at 9859 S 168th Avenue, Omaha, NE 68136. 4SA is a mutual benefit corporation and shall have members.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

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

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 1401 N 52nd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68132. The Registered Agent of the Company is Georgia Parment, 1401 N 52nd Street, Omaha NE 68132. The LLC commenced business on June 8, 2020.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC The Nebraska limited liability company’s name is Magnolia Therapy & Consultation Services, LLC. Its designated office is 3000 FARNAM STREET, SUITE 6 EAST OMAHA, NE 68131. Its purpose is any lawful business. It commenced on October 1, 2015. Its affairs shall be managed by a Member/Manager. Joseph J. Skudlarek, Organizer First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

Midlands Business Journal • JULY 3, 2020 • LEGAL NOTICES BENJAMIN E. MAXELL, Attorney GOVIER, KATSKEE, SUING & MAXELL, PC, LLO 10404 Essex Court, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF Elkhorn North Softball Booster Club, Inc. Registered Office: 10404 Essex Court, Suite #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 Registered Agent: Benjamin E. Maxell The corporation is a public benefit corporation. This corporation shall be organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary and education purposes. No part of the net earnings of this corporation shall inure to the benefit of any private director or individual. The corporation shall not lobby or otherwise attempt to influence legislation at any level of government. The corporation shall not participate in or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. Perpetual existence commenced June 3, 2020, when Articles were filed with Secretary of State. Affairs to be conducted by the Board of Directors and officers authorized by the By-Laws and the Board.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MAVEN SOFTWARE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Maven Software, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of Prairie Rose Properties, LLC Notice is hereby given that Prairie Rose Properties, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Dwayne W. Sieck, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is managermanaged and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of One Hillcrest LP, LLC Notice is hereby given that One Hillcrest LP, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is manager-managed and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of GCP II Hillcrest GP, LLC Notice is hereby given that GCP II Hillcrest GP, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is managermanaged and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 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 All Smiles Family Dentistry, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The limited liability company shall conduct the practice of dentistry. The designated office of the limited liability company is 6026 Country Club Oaks Place, Omaha, Nebraska 68152. 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 May 13, 2020.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of Prairie Rose Ventures, LLC Notice is hereby given that Prairie Rose Ventures, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Dwayne W. Sieck, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is managermanaged and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of GCP II Hillcrest LP, LLC Notice is hereby given that GCP II Hillcrest LP, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is managermanaged and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

MARY E. VANDENACK, Attorney VANDENACK WEAVER LLC 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3 Omaha, Nebraska 68118 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MCB PROPERTIES, LLC Notice is hereby given that MCB PROPERTIES, 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 9779 Westchester Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The agent for service of process for the Company is VW Agents located at 17007 Marcy Street, Suite 3, Omaha, NE 68118.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of Prairie Rose Enterprises, LLC Notice is hereby given that Prairie Rose Enterprises, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Dwayne W. Sieck, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is managermanaged and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF AVERAU LLC Notice is hereby given that AVERAU LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the Company is 1337 South 101st Street, #101, Omaha, NE 68124. The registered agent of the Company is USCA, Inc., 1603 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE 69102. The Company was formed on April 6, 2020.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020

MARK S. DICKHUTE Attorney at Law 955 No. Adams St., #1 Papillion, Nebraska 68046 NOTICE OF MASTER COMMISSIONER’S SALE By virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the District Court for Douglas County, Nebraska and pursuant to a Decree of said Court in an action therein indexed at CI20-1637, wherein Total Construction Services, Inc., is the Plaintiff, and Merry C. Thompson, a/k/a Cathy Thompson , and Danny E. Thompson were joined as Defendants, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, the following property at 1:00 o’clock p.m. on the 27th day of July, 2020 outside the Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam St., City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska: Lots 13 and 14, Block 25, Minne Lusa, an Addition to the City of Omaha, as surveyed, platted and recorded in Douglas County, Nebraska and its appurtenances, and otherwise known as 2747 Bauman Ave., Omaha, Nebraska (“the Property”), To satisfy the liens and encumbrances set forth therein; and to satisfy the accruing court costs, all as provided by said Order and Decree. The purchaser is responsible for all fees and taxes, including the documentary revenue stamp tax. Except where the purchaser is the Plaintiff, the purchaser will deposit with the Master Commissioner at the time of sale a non-refundable cashiers or certified check in the amount of $3,000.00, with the balance of the purchase price in certified funds to be received by Plaintiff’s attorney immediately upon confirmation of the sale by the Court. The sale is made without any warranties as to title or condition of the Property Dated this 2nd day of June, 2020.

Nancy Lawler Dickhute Master Commissioner First publication June 12, 2020, final July 3, 2020

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of One Hillcrest GP, LLC Notice is hereby given that One Hillcrest GP, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of Nebraska, with its initial designated office located at 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The initial agent for service of process is Zachary A. Wiegert, 10340 North 84th Street, Omaha, NE 68122. The company is manager-managed and may engage in all lawful business for which limited liability companies formed under Nebraska law are permitted.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF ADB Investments, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ADB Investments, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 11926 Arbor Street, Suite #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68144. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Daniel C. Bohm, 11926 Arbor Street, Suite #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68144.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF TERRACRAFT AGGREGATE, LLC. Notice is hereby given that TERRACRAFT AGGREGATE, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the registered office of the company is 5035 Arbor Circle, Omaha, NE 68106. The general nature of the business to be transacted by the company is any lawful business which may be carried on by limited liability companies organized under the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act. The company commenced on June 17th, 2020, and has perpetual duration. The manager of the company is Devyn Lambrecht.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020

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ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION The Beard & Mane, Inc. has been incorporated under the Nebraska Model Business Corporation Act. The street address of the corporation's initial registered office is 5113 NW Radial Hwy, Omaha, Nebraska 68104, and the name of the initial registered agent of the corporation at that office is Matthew B. Gosier. The corporation is authorized to issue 1,000 shares of Common Stock. The name and street address of the incorporator of the corporation are Matthew B. Gosier, 5113 NW Radial Hwy, Omaha, Nebraska 68104.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Company Name: WHRT LLC Initial Designated Office: 11704 W Center Rd #103a, Omaha, NE 68144 Registered Agent and Office: Ben Thompson, 14301 FNB Pkwy, Ste 100, Omaha, NE 68154 Date of Organization: March 11, 2020 Professional Services: Medical Services and Physical Medicine Ben Thompson, Organizer First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020 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 MAKINDE, LLC The name of the Company is Makinde, 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.

This limited liability company commenced business on June 19, 2020.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC The Nebraska limited liability company’s name is Nikki Burson, LLC. Its designated office is 1519 N. 208th Terrace, Elkhorn, NE 68022.

Its purpose is any lawful business. It commenced on May 26, 2020. Its affairs shall be managed by a Member/Manager. Nikki Burson, Organizer.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020 MATTHEW T. PAYNE, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF PERFORMANCE LAWN CARE, L.L.C. Notice is hereby given of an Amendment to the Certificate of Organization of Performance Lawn Care, L.L.C. under the laws of the State of Nebraska as follows: Article I of the Certificate of Organization of the Company is hereby amended so that, as amended, said Article shall provide that the name of the Company shall be SEAY ENTERPRISES, LLC. The Amendment to Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State of Nebraska on June 17, 2020. In all other respects, the Certificate of Organization remain unchanged.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF INSIDE OUT WINDOW WASHING, LLC Notice is hereby given that INSIDE OUT WINDOW WASHING, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska. The Company’s initial designated office is located at 11024 JEFFERSON ST., OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68137. The name and street mailing address of the initial agent for service of process is Colleen M. Dostal, the initial registered office located at 11024 JEFFERSON ST., OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68137. The general nature of its business is to engage in and do any lawful act concerning any and all lawful business, other than banking or insurance, for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the state of Nebraska. The Certificate of Organization was filed in the office of the Nebraska Secretary of State on June 15, 2020, the Company commenced business thereon, and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be conducted by its members.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION LLVJR, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, filed Articles of Dissolution on June 29, 2020, with the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office. The terms of the dissolution provide for the payment of liabilities of the corporation and the distribution of any remaining assets. Leslie Vaughn, Jr., as President, is to manage the corporate affairs relating to the dissolution of the Corporation. Any Corporation assets will be distributed in accordance with the Corporation’s plan of dissolution and it has no known liabilities.

The Corporation requests that persons with claims against it present them in accordance with this notice. Any claimant shall send notice of a claim to the Corporation to the above address. A claim against LLVJR, Inc. will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within three (3) years after the publication of this notice.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

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• JULY 3, 2020 • Midlands Business Journal

LEGAL NOTICES CHARLES E. DORWART, Attorney MASSIH LAW, LLC 226 N. 114th Street Omaha, NE 68154 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-865 Estate of Dennis William Eurek, Deceased Notice is hereby given that on June 17th, 2020, in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal Probate of the Intestacy of said Decedent and that Leslie Kay Eurek of 10718 Charles Street, Omaha, NE 68114 was informally appointed by the Registrar as Personal Representative of the 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 August 26, 2020 or be forever barred.

CARROL L. MILLS Registrar First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020 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 BOYER 7125, LLC The name of the Company is Boyer 7125, LLC. The Designated Office of the Company is: 7125 Q Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68117. The Registered Agent and Office of the Company is: Howland Boyer, Jr., 7125 Q Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68117. This limited liability company commenced business on June 19, 2020.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 10, 2020 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 FORT 90 RE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Fort 90 RE, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 5122 North 90th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134. 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 June 11, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-436 In the matter of the trust of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Four Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Four has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trustee and Settlor of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Four First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-439 In the matter of the trust of the Lincoln Family Trust Number Two Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Lincoln Family Trust Number Two has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trustee of the LINCOLN FAMILY TRUST NUMBER TWO First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-438 In the matter of the trust of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Five Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Five has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trustee and Settlor of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Five First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

TIMOTHY J. BUCKLEY, Attorney GOVIER, KATSKEE, SUING & MAXELL, PC, LLO 10404 Essex Court, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-871 Estate of JEROME E. CORCORAN, Deceased Notice is hereby given that on 18TH day of June, 2020, in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal Probate of the Will of said Decedent and that Kathleen M. Curnyn, whose address is 1708 N. 107th St., Omaha, Nebraska 68114, was informally appointed by the Registrar as Personal Representative of the 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 August 26, 2020 or be forever barred.

CARROL L. MILLS Registrar First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020 STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-442 In the matter of the trust of the Olivia G. Lincoln Trust Number One Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Olivia G. Lincoln Trust Number One has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trustee of the OLIVIA G. LINCOLN TRUST NUMBER ONE First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 MATTHEW BURNS, Attorney LEFLER | KUEHL | BURNS 300 S 19th Street, Suite 304 Omaha, NE 68102 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-539 Estate of MARILYN TOURTELLOT, Deceased Notice is hereby given that on 11TH day of June, 2020, in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal Probate of the Will of said Decedent and that MATTHEW BURNS, whose address is 1213 Jones St., Omaha, NE 68102, was informally appointed by the Registrar as Personal Representative of the 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 (two months after first publication date) November 19, 2016 or be forever barred.

KELLY J. GOLDEN Registrar First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF EMH Studios LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that EMH Studios LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 2323 S 144th ST STE. 12. The Registered Agent of the Company is Erica Hord, 14602 Gilder Ave., Bennington, NE 68007.

First publication June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-441 In the matter of the trust of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Six Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Six has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 2:00p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trustee of and Settlor of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Six First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 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 ROCKETSHIP VENTURES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rocketship Ventures, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 4331 North 156th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68116. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Elliot Bassett, 4331 North 156th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68116. The limited liability company commenced business on June 17, 2020.

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NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DREAMS DO COME TRUE, L.L.C. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dreams Do Come True, L.L.C. (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 2714 Newport Avenue, Omaha, NE 68112. The Registered Agent of the Company is Anna M. Lemieux, 2714 Newport Avenue, Omaha, NE 68112 First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020 DVORAK LAW GROUP LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF BATES FLORIDA PROPERTIES, LLC Notice is hereby given that Bates Florida Properties, LLC has filed a Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on June 10, 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 therefor, and that the balance of any remaining assets are to be distributed to its Members. Robert D. Bates, as Manager, will wind up and liquidate the company’s business and affairs. If you have a claim against Bates Florida Properties, LLC, 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 Robert D. Bates, 8910 Douglas Court, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. A claim against Bates Florida Properties, LLC 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 July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 RUSSELL J. KREIKEMEIER, Attorney KREIKEMEIER LAW OFFICES 126 East Grove Street West Point, Nebraska 68788 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given of the organization of SBD Group, LLC, with its registered office address at 222 South 15th Street, Suite 316, Omaha, Nebraska 68102 and the registered agent at that address being Joseph P. Naatz. The designated office location of the Company is 2822 North 88th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134. The purpose or purposes for which this Company is formed is to own conduct, operate, maintain and carry on the business of a restaurant and to prepare and sell food and beverages of all kinds; and to conduct all things incidental and necessary to said operations and all related matters, including sales and promotions thereof, 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 June 24, 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 July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 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 WL OMAHA HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that WL Omaha Holdings, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 3814 Farnam Street, Suite 203, Omaha, Nebraska 68131. 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 June 25, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 SEAN D. MOYLAN, Attorney MOYLAN LAW, LLC 1010 South 120th Street, Suite 320 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF J.E. ENTERPRISES, LLC The name of the Company is J.E. Enterprises, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company. The designated office of the Company is 17217 Grand Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68116. The initial registered agent Sean Moylan of the Company is located at 1010 S. 120th Street, Suite #320, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. This limited liability company commenced business on June 24, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 SCOTT A. MEYERSON, Esq. LIKES MEYERSON HATCH LLC 444 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF WORKS CONSULTING LLC Notice is hereby given that Works Consulting 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 444 Regency Parkway Dr., #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial agent for service of process is 706 N. 129th St., Suite 121, Omaha, Nebraska 68154 and the Company’s initial agent for service of process at such address is Legalinc Corporate Services, Inc. First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

Midlands Business Journal • JULY 3, 2020 • LEGAL NOTICES ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: ACC Sub Blanks Name of Applicant: Amanda's Crafty Creations, LLC Address: 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 Applicant is a Limited Liability Compnay If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: 06/18/2020 General nature of business: Whole Products & Designs for Sublimation Business AMANDA WEDERGREN Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: ACC Sublimation Blanks & Designs Name of Applicant: Amanda's Crafty Creations, LLC Address: 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 Applicant is a Limited Liability Compnay If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: 06/18/2020 General nature of business: Whole Products & Designs for Sublimation Business AMANDA WEDERGREN Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: AmandasCraftyCreates Name of Applicant: Amanda's Crafty Creations, LLC Address: 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 Applicant is a Limited Liability Compnay If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: 06/18/2020 General nature of business: Finished handmade home goods & jewerly AMANDA WEDERGREN Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: Amanda's Crafty Creations Name of Applicant: Amanda's Crafty Creations, LLC Address: 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114 Applicant is a Limited Liability Compnay If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: 06/18/2020 General nature of business: Fine handmade home goods & jewerly AMANDA WEDERGREN Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 WHITMORE LAW OFFICE LLC 7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that Elegant Enterprises, L.L.C. (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the Company is 12903 Deer Creek Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68142.

The registered agent of the Company is Amy Lindhorst, 12903 Deer Creek Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68142. The Company was formed on June 24, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 KOLEY JESSEN P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800, One Pacific Place Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1079 NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF HASCALL LAB SERVICES, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of Hascall Lab Services, LLC has been amended as follows: (1) The name of the limited liability company has been changed to WDL Omaha, LLC and (2) the designated office of the limited liability company has been changed to 5122 North 90th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134. The amendment was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on June 11, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC The Nebraska limited liability company’s name is TACTManagement, LLC. Its designated office is 1055 N 115 Street – STE 301, Omaha NE 68154. Its purpose is any lawful business. It commenced on March 4, 2020.

Its affairs shall be managed by a Member/Manager. Joseph J. Skudlarek, Organizer First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

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STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-444 In the matter of the trust of the Georgia R. Lincoln Trust Number Three Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Georgia R. Lincoln Trust Number Three has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 2:00 p.m.

The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

GEORGIA R. LINCOLN, Co-Trusttee and Settlor of the Georgia R. Lincoln Trust Number Three First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-440 In the matter of the trust of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Three Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Three has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trustee of and Settlor of the Edward M. Lincoln Trust Number Three First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-445 In the matter of the trust of the Georgia R. Lincoln Trust Number Four Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Georgia R. Lincoln Trust Number Four has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

GEORGIA R. LINCOLN, Co-Trusttee and Settlor of the Georgia R. Lincoln Trust Number Four First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Attorneys 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Amanda’s Crafty Creations, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The street and mailing 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 Andrew P. Deaver and 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.

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STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-443 In the matter of the trust of the Olivia G. Lincoln Trust Number Four Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Olivia G. Lincoln Trust Number Four has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN, Trusttee of the OLIVIA G. LINCOLN TRUST NUMBER FOUR First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 STEVEN G. RANUM, Attorney C R O K E R , H U C K , K A S H E R , D e W I T T, A N D E R S O N & GONDERINGER, L.L.C. 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-437 In the matter of the trust of the Lincoln Family Trust Number One Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Modification of Trust regarding the Lincoln Family Trust Number One has been filed in the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. Hearing on said Petition for Modification of Trust is schelduled for August 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. The Petition for Modification of Trust may be granted by the Court if no objection is filed with the Court prior to the date of hearing.

EDWARD M. LINCOLN and GEORGIA R LINCOLN, Co-Trustees of the LINCOLN FAMILY TRUST NUMBER ONE First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020

DANA ROCHE, Attorney RINGENBERG & RATTNER LAW 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF R&T INSURANCE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that R&T Insurance, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office Address of the Company is 1633 Normandy Court, Suite B, Lincoln, Nebraska 68512. The Registered Agent of the Company is Dana F. Roche, Ringenberg & Rattner Law, LLC, 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204, Omaha, Nebraska 68154.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP, Attorneys 13330 California Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LINDLEY’S COFFEE SHOP, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lindley’s Coffee Shop, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on June 22, 2020 (the “Company”). The Company has designated its registered agent as Nathan N. Lindley, with registered office at 324 S. 52st Street, Omaha, NE 68132.

The Company’s initial designated office is at 324 S. 52st Street, Omaha, NE 68132. The Company shall be governed by one or more managers.

The general nature of business is any lawful purpose.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 SCUDDER LAW FIRM, P.C., L.L.O., Attorneys 411 S. 13th Street, Second Floor Lincoln, NE 68508 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION A Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State for Crossroads Land, LLC, with its registered office at 37 Avenue 240, Arnold, Nebraska 69120. The registered agent and address for service of process is: Heidi Hornung-Scherr, 411 South 13th Street, Suite 200, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508.

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HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP, Attorneys 13330 California Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LINDLEY REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lindley Real Estate Holdings, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on June 22, 2020 (the “Company”). The Company has designated its registered agent as Nathan N. Lindley, with registered office at 324 S. 52st Street, Omaha, NE 68132. The Company’s initial designated office is at 324 S. 52st Street, Omaha, NE 68132. The Company shall be governed by one or more managers. The general nature of business is any lawful purpose.

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ERICKSON l SEDERSTROM, P.C., Attorneys 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: CDG Ironworks, LLC Name of Applicant: CDG Enterprises Address: 7240 North 71st Avenue Omaha, NE 68152 Applicant is a Limited Liability Compnay If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska Date of first use of name in Nebraska: Upon filing General nature of business: Steel fabrication SHAY GARVIN Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020

BENJAMIN J. PICK, Attorney PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BACHMAN LLP 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3728 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF TBP, LLC Notice is hereby given of the organization of TBP, LLC. 1. The name of the limited liability company is TBP, LLC. 2. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office is 720 North 164th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68118, and the name and street address of the initial agent for service of process is Peter C. Hanley, 720 North 164th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68118.

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APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: Revive Construction Name of Applicant: MVMT Properties, LLC Address:4328 N. 143rd Street, Omaha, NE 68164 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: June 1, 2020 General nature of business: Construction TONYA MOORE Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020

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LEGAL NOTICES ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF VWX, 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 VWX, LLC. The initial designated office is 1011 North 128th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 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 to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on June 24, 2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 DANA ROCHE, Attorney RINGENBERG & RATTNER LAW 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF 8736, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 8736, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The Registered Agent of the Company is Kendra Ringenberg, 14301 FNB Parkway, Suite 204, Omaha, Nebraska 68154.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 SCOTT A. MEYERSON, Esq. LIKES MEYERSON HATCH LLC 444 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF WORKS CONSULTING LLC Notice is hereby given that Works Consulting 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 444 Regency Parkway Dr., #100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial agent for service of process is 706 N. 129th St., Suite 121, Omaha, Nebraska 68154 and the Company’s initial agent for service of process at such address is Legalinc Corporate Services, Inc. First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 MATTHEW WURSTNER, Attoryney CARLSON & BURNETT, LLP 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, Nebraska 68130 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SUITE LOGIC, LLC Notice is hereby given that SUITE LOGIC, LLC is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The initial designated office is 17610 Englewood St., Omaha, NE 68135. The initial registered agent is Matthew Wurstner, whose address is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The purpose of the Company shall be to engage in any lawful business and such 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 on June 25 2020, and shall have a perpetual period of duration. The Company is to be managed by its initial Members of the Company who are: Nicole Neesen and Brian Neesen, 17610 Englewood St. Omaha, NE 68135.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 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 DIABETES & ENDOCRINE ASSOCIATES, P.C. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Diabetes & Endocrine Associates, P.C., a Nebraska professional corporation (“Corporation”), has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on June 26, 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, Claire H. Baker, M.D., will wind up and liquidate the Corporation’s business and affairs. The Corporation has no assets or liabilities as of the date hereof.

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THOMAS H. PENKE, Attorney 12020 Shamrock Plaza, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 LEGAL NOTICE In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. PR20-904 Estate of Pinkie M. Foster, Deceased Notice is hereby given that a Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs, and Appointment E. Ray Allen, whose address is 3417 North 48th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68104, as Personal Representative has been filed herein and is set for hearing in the Douglas County Court Probate Division, Courtroom #330, on the 21 day of July, 2020, at 11:00 o'clock A.M. CAROLE L. MILLS Registrar First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020

CAMERON M. RIECKE, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF CERNIK APPRAISALS, 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 Cernik Appraisals, Inc. The corporation is authorized to issue 1,000 shares of common stock. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on June 22, 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.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC The Nebraska limited liability company’s name is Magnolia Therapy & Consultation Services, LLC. Its designated office is 3000 FARNAM STREET, SUITE 6 EAST OMAHA, NE 68131. Its purpose is any lawful business. It commenced on October 1, 2015. Its affairs shall be managed by a Member/Manager. Joseph J. Skudlarek, Organizer First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF VK, 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 VK, LLC. The initial designated office is 1011 North 128th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 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 to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on May 22, 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 June 19, 2020, final July 3, 2020 SCOTT A. MEYERSON, Esq. LIKES MEYERSON HATCH LLC 444 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 N O T I C E O F A M E N D M E N T T O C E R T I F I C AT E O F ORGANIZATIONCHANGE OF NAME The Certificate of Organization of WORKS CONSULTING LLC has been amended, changing the name of the company from WORKS CONSULTING LLC to WWORKS CONSULTING, LLC, effective June 26, 2020. All other provisions of the Certificate of Organization remain unchanged.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 HALEY REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC 10703 J Street, Suite 101 Omaha, NE 68127 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION FOR STONEGATE APTS HC5, LLC A Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State for Stonegate Apts HC5, LLC (the “Company”) on April 15, 2020.

The address of the Company’s designated office is 10703 J Street, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68127. The name and address for the Company’s registered agent is Carl J. Troia, Jr., 10703 J Street, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68127.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 HALEY REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC 10703 J Street, Suite 101 Omaha, NE 68127 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION FOR ASHTON PINES HC5, LLC A Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State for Ashton Pines HC5, LLC (the “Company”) on May 12, 2020. The address of the Company’s designated office is 10703 J Street, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68127. The name and address for the Company’s registered agent is Carl J. Troia, Jr., 10703 J Street, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68127.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 HALEY REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC 10703 J Street, Suite 101 Omaha, NE 68127 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION FOR LAGO HC5, LLC A Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State for Lago HC5, LLC (the “Company”) on May 21, 2020. The address of the Company’s designated office is 10703 J Street, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68127. The name and address for the Company’s registered agent is Carl J. Troia, Jr., 10703 J Street, Suite 101, Omaha, NE 68127.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LLC Notice is hereby given that 11th & Grant St. Storage, LLC (the "Company") has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.

The Designated Office address of the Company is 5020 Hillcrest Drive, Blair, NE 68008. The Registered Agent of the Company is Steven P. Ahlf, 11590 West Dodge Road, Suite 1, Omaha, NE 68154.

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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 ORGANIZATION OF 11302 WRIGHT LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 11302 Wright LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The registered agent and office of the limited liability company is Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O., 1125 S 103rd Street Suite 800, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The limited liability company commenced business on June 29, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME Trade Name to be registered is: Grand and Mercer Name of Applicant: Needle and Button, Inc. Address: 8712 W. Dodge Rd/ Suite 300 Omaha NE 68114 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: June 25. 2020 General nature of business: Retail sale of women's clothing, accessories, shoes and gifts.

NICOLE SECKMAN JILEK Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative July 3, 2020 ANDREW J. HUBER, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF 15843 WILLOW STREET, 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 15843 Willow Street, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 17824 Island Circle, Bennington, Nebraska 68007.

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 June 24, 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 July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 DANIEL C. PAULEY, Attorney LAMSON, DUGAN and MURRAY, LLP 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114-3743 NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF TL Speaks, 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 TL Speaks, LLC. 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 May 20, 2020 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement.

First publication June 26, 2020, final July 3, 2020 WHITMORE LAW OFFICE LLC 7602 Pacific Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68114 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice is hereby given that M. York Jr Financial Strategies, L.L.C. (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the Company is 18710 Vinton Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The registered agent of the Company is Thomas E. Whitmore, 7602 Pacific Street, Ste. 200, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The Company was formed on June 24, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 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 LAND & LORE, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Land & Lore, LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The designated office of the limited liability company is 3717 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68131. 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 June 29, 2020.

First publication July 3, 2020, final July 17, 2020 HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP, Attorneys 13330 California Street, Suite 200 Omaha, Nebraska 68154 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF 10,000 COLLISIONS LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 10,000 Collisions LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska on June 24, 2020 (the "Company"). The Company has designated its registered agent as Nathan Preheim, with registered office at 2012 N 55th Street, Omaha, NE 68104.

The Company’s initial designated office is at 2012 N 55th Street, Omaha, NE 68104. The Company shall be governed by one or more managers. The general nature of business is any lawful purpose.

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Work-Related Injuries A section prepared by the staff of the Midlands Business Journal

July 3, 2020

Unprecedented vulnerabilities call for keen risk management, safety culture

by Michelle Leach

The present environment provides a stark example of why managing risks, implementing safety and emergency response procedures, is so important.

“We were tested a year ago and activated

our BCS (business continuity plan) with the devastating flooding in our service area and throughout our region,” said Omaha Public Power District Manager of Safety Systems and Processes Travis Hoops. “Our safety culture has not changed during these catastrophic events,

Michael Khalili, attorney at Hauptman O’Brien Wolf & Lathrop. but it has been put to the test.”

Hoops said OPPD is strategic and intentionTo accommodate social distancing, many al in tracking performance metrics associated crews report to different locations through the with safety, and preparing managers, supervisors district and, at the time of this writing, OPPD is and other employees as “safety leaders.” working on reintroduction practices and testing “There are thousands of puzzle pieces that options. must be joined together when building a quality The aforementioned “safety culsafety program … it must become ture” is embodied and defined by its your culture,” he said. “To make it Nebraska’s Safest Companies with your culture, caring for your people Distinction honor from the National must become a top priority that you Safety Council-Nebraska in 2019. are willing to invest in. Once em“In early 2019, we collaborated ployees see a genuine commitment with our organizational development from leadership, they will aspire to group to implement a new leader a common culture that is a ‘win’ for onboarding program and OPPD’s everyone.”

Crew Leader University — a preAs it relates to the broader propparatory course designed to prepare erty and casualty insurance market, bargaining unit employees in skilled Lockton Cos. Nebraska President Struyk trades for senior roles in their areas,” Jack Struyk said the pandemic has Hoops said. created uncertainty and financial chaos, which Additionally, it’s growing data analytics could cause a “sharp hardening” in P&C that capabilities. lasts a few years.

“We are working toward integrating our On the heels of the outbreak’s spread and safety management software database with declaration as a national emergency this spring, non-safety OPPD systems,” Hoops said. “So, Struyk also noted how the pandemic is changing we can better identify situations that increase the insurance business (as it’s not covered for risk to our employees.” business income), and that coverage will be Improved identification means improved available and likely re-insured by the federal response. government akin to how terrorism is insured Hoops indicated enduring safety programs today. transcend procedures and processes; a safety “There are six states attempting to pass culture of shared beliefs, practices and attitudes legislation to require insurance carriers to pay must be built, which shape organization-wide business income claims despite exclusion,” he behaviors and require time, dedication, and said. “Also, expect lawsuits to be filed to chalcommitment from leadership.

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Employees infected with COVID-19 on job be prepared for lengthy workers’ comp battle

by David Kubicek

Employees are eligible for workers’ compensation if they are infected with the novel coronavirus on the job, but the big hurdle is proving that they got the disease at work.

“Whether or not the employee can show they contracted [COVID-19] at work can determine whether the employee can get coverage and [it] can impact whether the employer can be sued for exposure of em-

ployees or wrongful death or injury,” said Micky Devitt, legal and policy coordinator at Heartland Workers Center.

Heartland Workers Center hasn’t yet had a case of an employee filing a workers’ comp claim because of COVID-19.

“We’re still at this point involved with disease prevention and are working with workers who are trying to get enough precautions put in place so they don’t get sick,” Devitt said.

Vulnerabilities call for risk management Continued from preceding page. lenge denials.”

In addition to society’s emphasis on hygiene and overall well-being, risk management to deal with the new challenges presented by pandemics will “become priority” in the future, according to Struyk.

“There has never been a global catastrophe, uncertainty, confusion and mass unemployment as there has been in the last few months due to the COVID-19 pandemic — at least not in my lifetime,” said Michael Khalili, bilingual attorney at Hauptman O’Brien. “This is a novel situation for everyone from the employee to the employer to the consumer.”

Fewer people working has been correlated with less worksite injuries; however, Khalili said essential and critical jobs in health care, construction, food processing, public works and critical manufacturing have steadily continued — with the severity of injuries increasing somewhat.

“With the economy now reopening, work-related injuries and claims have been picking up exponentially,” he said, with inade-

quate staffing a vulnerability and the “elephant in the room:” not having enough protections for employees.

“If, for example, multiple employees begin contracting COVID-19 and the employer has a ‘hot-spot,’ that can lead to many new workers’ compensation claims,” he said.

Stagger employees if possible, Khalili said, but strictly enforce guidelines so employees don't “overcompensate” (leading to injuries). A “trove” of personal protective equipment must be provided — and required.

Provide all essential communications and materials in English, Spanish and any other language to ensure employees have access to the same info (visit the “Resources for Limited-English Proficient Populations” toolkit at CDC.gov).

“All these precautions serve as a belt and suspenders protection for the employees as well as the employer,” he said. “These factors would greatly reduce the spread of the virus and possibility for claims against the company for employees that inevitably contract the virus.”

The tricky part is proving that the em- sure where the infection came from.

“The burden of persuasion is where you ployee contracted COVID-19 at work. For instance, workers’ comp typically won’t cover have to persuade the court that your stateevery disease, like the flu. Employees must ment of causation is the one the court should prove that being infected with COVID-19 is accept,” Handley said. “For instance, if the within the scope of their employment, their employer had 30 employees who came down with COVID, and you can show duties, and their position — for you had direct contact with them, example, employees who work in you have a pretty good case. The a nursing home or in a lab. employer may counter that there “It’s important that people was a [party] attended by 100 plus understand their potential eliemployees, and that is where the gibility for workers’ comp, that employee got infected.” [they]were more likely to contract Every case is a little different, [COVID-19] at work, and it wasn’t but in general an employee who due to general life circumstance,” files a lawsuit will be notified Devitt said. in six to nine months when they It isn’t as simple as it sounds can expect to go to trial. The time for employees to show that they Devitt will depend on which judge is more than likely were infected with COVID-19 while doing their job, ac- assigned, the judge’s caseload, and how the cording to Watson Carroll Attorney David caseload is being managed.

Either the employer or the employee may Handley. The employees would have to show what caused them to get the disease, request a continuance of up to four months — whether it was through contact with infected if they want a longer continuance they must employees, infected surfaces or by some have a very good reason — which will be at the judge’s discretion, so the trial could be up other means.

“Whenever you have a work comp case, to 16 months from the date of filing.

“Once you start having problems, report the employee has two burdens — the burden of proof and the burden of persuasion,” them to your employer as soon as is practical so the employer has legal notice of the injury, Handley said.

For the burden of proof, the employee which is required, but also so the employer must have the minimum legal requirements can be assessing who else may have been to win the argument. In COVID-19 cases this exposed,” Handley said. “Employees who are usually means a doctor’s statement saying sick should communicate with their doctors that within a reasonable degree of medical who will be proactive in getting them testing, certainty, the employee was infected at work. and employers would be wise to follow the The employer will most likely counter with its CDC and government recommendations [for own doctor’s statement saying they can’t be preventing infection].”

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Fearful commuters on trains, buses hold one key to US recovery Continued from page 12. that the public has to feel confident and feel good about riding transit, that it’s safe for them from a health standpoint,” said Paul Skoutelas CEO of the American Public Transportation Association, the transit industry’s Washington trade association.

That will cost money. While agencies received $25 billion in emergency aid from the federal virus stimulus bill, APTA has asked lawmakers and the Trump administration to authorize nearly $24 billion in additional emergency aid.

“The stress on agencies is very real,” Skoutelas said. “There is a need for additional funding across the board from New York to California for systems large and small.”

Transit systems have taken a range of actions to win back riders after ridership in some cities dropped by 90% or more during the initial wave of the pandemic.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system in San Francisco has been running longer trains throughout the day to prevent crowding on its cars. All riders and employees on New York’s subways are required to wear masks and the system is handing them out to people who need them. Subway stations have been outfitted with new signs and floor markings to promote keeping at a safe distance where possible.

Those actions may help allay the fears of riders, according to a report commissioned by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, an transit advocacy group for the greater New York City region. Some 92% out of roughly 1,000 regular transit users surveyed in April and May said they planned to return to public transportation after the pandemic. Those respondents said intensified cleaning, mandatory masks and more frequent service were among the actions transit agencies could take to make them feel safe enough to ride, while only 8% said they’d only return once there is a vaccine.

“The positive sign for many transit agencies is that much of the precautions riders want to see, including increased cleanings and mask requirements, are already in place. Better rider education about the steps already underway would help riders feel that transit is safe for use,”

the report said.

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the largest U.S. transit agency, on June 8 began returning subway and bus systems to normal weekday schedules to coincide with the first phase of the city’s reopening. After falling more than 90% from 8.3 million daily riders before the pandemic, ridership has been on the rise since May. NYC subway and bus ridership topped 2 million on Friday for first time since March.

To be sure, even MTA leaders acknowledge social distancing will be difficult if not impossible as more riders return.

“We do not believe that it is necessarily possible to get six feet of social distance in the New York City transit system,” Sarah Feinberg, interim president of New York City Transit, said at a press conference earlier this month.

Those concerns will keep some riders away, said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Intensified sanitation efforts, enforcing mask policies and efforts to prevent crowding can mitigate risks, but those efforts can only do so much until there’s a broadly available vaccine, he said.

“As more stores open and more things open and as tourists start to come back to New York City, the subway is going to be really important and it’s going to be an area where you might see a transmission risk,” Adalja said.

Subway and metro usage still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels in major Chinese cities that were struck by the virus in January. Although on the rise since February, daily subway ridership in Beijing was 32% below pre-virus levels in early June, while usage in Shanghai was still off 20%, according to a June 2 report by BloombergNEF. “Will commuters be willing to re-board transit with a high degree of medical uncertainty and a liberalization of work from home policy?” Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. “That’s the question.” ©2020 Bloomberg News Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Vice President, Commercial Lending

Vice President, Ancillary and Professional Services

Arbor Bank

Arbor Bank, a community bank and leading commercial lender with locations across Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa, is pleased to announce the hiring of Matt Jetter as Vice President, Commercial Lending. Mr. Jetter will join the fast-growing Arbor Bank commercial team in the Omaha metro area. Mr. Jetter brings nearly two decades of experience in commercial lending and business banking services.

Mr. Jetter will be an invaluable leader in the area’s increasingly competitive C&I Lending marketplace. An Omaha native, Matt Jetter currently serves on the board of CASA for Douglas County and has served as a member of the AKSARBEN Floor Committee. He also volunteers regularly with the Food Bank for the Heartland and remains actively involved in our community. Arbor Bank is excited for what the future holds as it continues to grow, with a new Vice President, Commercial Lending and a growing footprint in the Omaha commercial lending arena.

Methodist Fremont Health

Shaun Custard, MHA, MBA, FACHE, has been named vice president, ancillary and professional services for Methodist Fremont Health. He will oversee services including laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, cardio-pulmonary, sleep, rehabilitation, radiation oncology and cancer care. Custard brings a wealth of health care administration experience to his new role. He comes to Methodist from Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, where he was director of the Criss Heart Center. He previously was practice administrator for congenital heart surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

At the Baylor College of Medicine surgery department in Houston, he served as manager of financial reporting before becoming director of business operations.

Custard also was inpatient business manager at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He previously was an administrative fellow there. “Shaun’s years of experience in hospital operations, strategic development and financial management make him an invaluable addition to the Methodist Fremont Health team,” said President and CEO Brett Richmond. “His work behind the scenes will help ensure that patients and families continue to receive outstanding care.” Custard received his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri Trulaske College of Business and his master’s degree in health care administration from the University of Missouri School of Medicine.

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