Aurora will be a host town to Bike Riders Across Nebraska on June 6. Aurora Area Chamber and Development is in the planning stage in preparing for the 600-750 bikers to stay in Aurora for one night.

Volunteers are needed to help with this large event that benefits the community by as much as $22,000 in income for Aurora in one night. The biggest challenge is having churches or organizations or eateries to make meals for them and having carpooling accessible for them to utilize to go shop, go to the Plainsman Museum, Explorit Center, library or eating facilities.

Families looking for help in dealing with delicate end-of-life issues will soon have a local resource to turn to with the opening of a Hospice Community Care office in Aurora.

The new venture is located in the Penner Manufacturing headquarters building on Grant Street, where a core interdisciplinary team has been assembled and will soon begin offering services to terminally-ill patients within a 50-mile radius. For complete story, see the Jan. 30 issue of the Aurora News-Register.