The NEBRASKAland Foundation recognized York Middle School and York High School as "Sweepstakes Schools" in the Nebraska State Fair Education Competitions at a brief ceremony on Statehood Day in the Capitol Rotunda.
The education competitions include early entry static exhibits and performance and testing events during the first week of the state fair. Three individual students were also recognized for being individual sweepstakes winners. Sweepstakes recognition is based on number of events entered and awards earned. York's individual awardees are Bailey Gocke, Nicole Mittman, and Matthew Mittman.
NEBRASKAland Foundation picked two outstanding veterans to be presented with a quilt at the program. It was exciting to hear the stories of these two Nebraska heroes. Ed Guthrie, a 97 year-old Navy WWII vet, retired from Omaha Public Power. He is a Pearl Harbor Survivor and his next assignment was on a ship that tested the atomic bomb in the Pacific Ocean. The first days after the Pearl Harbor attack he helped rescue survivors and found a $5 bill covered in oil he kept to this day to remember the events of that day! Roy Long, a 94 year-old Army vet,and former Husker halfback, is a retired Omaha teacher/coach. He served in the European theater with the 71st Division, liberating a concentration camp in Austria and being a guard at the Nuremberg Trials. He recently addressed an audience during the opening of the Holocaust Exhibit "Searching for Humanity" at the SAC Museum.
The York students were awed and inspired by the amazing stories of these two Nebraska vets.
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