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In response to social problems resulting from World War I and rapid industrialization, Chicago businessman Melvin Jones invited business clubs from throughout the country to a meeting in his hometown. That meeting resulted in The Association of Lions Clubs. Within its first three years, there were Lions in 23 U.S. states with a total of 6,400 members. When the Windsor, Canada Lions Club was established, the Association of Lions Clubs became Lions International. Now Lions International is in more than 200 countries and geographic areas with 48,000 clubs and 1.4 million members.

The St. Patrick’s Knights of Columbus annual shrimp boil was held on Friday, March 18th. Above: Levi Bates serves shrimp to Greg and Sylvia Ringler. Right: Tim and Ethan Schroeder are on shrimp boiling duty at the back of the parish hall. (Photos by Becky Rathbun)

Mark your calendars for April 2 because that is the day the Lincoln PRIDE committee will be helping you with your yard’s spring cleaning!

More people work from home now than ever before. The internet has thousands of listings for work-from-home opportunities. Not only have direct sales opportunities increased exponentially over the past 40 years, but the onset of the pandemic inspired many companies to explore the idea of remote work for their employees, and those who’s jobs were lost to the COVID regulations have been creative in finding ways to make money without leaving home.

Lincoln Junior High students held their first annual STEM expo on Monday evening, March 7, in the commons area of their school. The students had the choice of five STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) projects to pick from. The choices were: designing a birdhouse for a finch, hydropower plant, seismograph, rubber band car, or catapult.

The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge was held Tuesday, March 8, at Sylvan-Lucas Unified Jr./Sr. High School. Students from bothUSD 298 and USD 299 participated. In the Challenge, students developed business concepts, presenting them to a series of judges. The students were scored in three major categories including executive summaries, formal presentation and trade show presentation. Cash prizes were awarded in the amount of $500 for first place, $300 for second place and $100 for third place. L-R: Alex Biggs, Shelbie Ford, Kristen Mahin, Tana Hayworth, Brooke Wehrman, Tressa Wehrman, and Hunter Hulse. (Photo by Becky Rathbun)

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One man’s (or woman’s) junk is another’s treasure, especially when the junk is treasure to the American Pickers! In February, the Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce received a press release from the History Channel series “American Pickers,” looking for leads for their Kansas picking trip in April 2022, with plans to film the hit television series throughout the area.