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  • Peg Lackore (left) and Tyler Jensen have been reunited in physical therapy 22 years after she helped him on the road to recovery.
    Peg Lackore (left) and Tyler Jensen have been reunited in physical therapy 22 years after she helped him on the road to recovery.
  • More than 400 classic cars and “special interest” vehicles rolled into Aurora Saturday, giving local car enthusiasts a unique rolling car show. To view a video of the event, log on to ANR’s Twitter and YouTube accounts.
    More than 400 classic cars and “special interest” vehicles rolled into Aurora Saturday, giving local car enthusiasts a unique rolling car show. To view a video of the event, log on to ANR’s Twitter and YouTube accounts.
  • This corn crop is making good progress in a field on the south side of Aurora.
    This corn crop is making good progress in a field on the south side of Aurora.
  • Brady Collingham (11) makes the tackle out of bounds during the 63rd annual Shrine Bowl game Saturday at UNK.
    Brady Collingham (11) makes the tackle out of bounds during the 63rd annual Shrine Bowl game Saturday at UNK.
  • The following caption is provided on the back of this original photo: ‘The world’s fastest race horse in his day. Owned by Mr. G. W. Currie of Aurora, Nebraska, and trained by Mr. Emanuel Smith. In 1891 Online set the world’s record as a two year old, time 2.11. As a four year old he held a record of 2.04. This record was not broken until four years later by Dan Patch.’
    The following caption is provided on the back of this original photo: ‘The world’s fastest race horse in his day. Owned by Mr. G. W. Currie of Aurora, Nebraska, and trained by Mr. Emanuel Smith. In 1891 Online set the world’s record as a two year old, time 2.11. As a four year old he held a record of 2.04. This record was not broken until four years later by Dan Patch.’

    Physical therapy unites Peg Lackore, Tyler Jensen across the years
    Having to go through physical therapy is a tough process, but it helps when there is someone familiar to help along the way. 
    Luckily for Peg Lackore, she had a friendly face from the past assisting her with physical therapy in the form of Tyler Jensen.
    When Jensen was in a car accident at the age of 10, it was Lackore who helped work with him during the recovery process and now he is getting to return the favor.
    “Twenty-two years ago, I got a phone call with this 10-year-old kid who was coming out of the hospital with a broken neck and a broken femur,” she recalled. “The family had no idea what to do and I was a home health physical therapist.”

    A rolling classic car show
    Engines were revving, horns were honking and people from both inside the passing cars and along the streets of Aurora were waving Saturday afternoon as the Nebraska Rod and Custom’s road tour passed through town.
    More than 450 classic, antique and special interest vehicles rolled in from the north on Highway 14, then turned west onto Highway 34 offering a rolling car show that lasted approximately 30 minutes.
    “It was fantastic to see all the people who came out and watched,” said Allan Coats of Giltner, who drove a 1987 station wagon in this year’s 600-mile Tour Nebraska. “I’ve never seen so many people watching the event go through. That makes it really fun for the drivers; just livens things up.”

    Planting season in the books; status quo for now
    As the weather warms up and the calendar turns into the summer months, most every farmer in Hamilton County has wrapped up their planting season. 
    Fresh out of a unique set of circumstances in 2020 -- flooding, a pandemic -- local voices also expressed contentment with the “status quo.”
    “I think we finished all of our commercial corn and soybeans on the ninth or the 10th,” Mitch Oswald reported. “And then we had some seed corn we had to plant, and that’s kind of on their schedule. We just finished that here about a week to 10 days ago.” 

    Former Huskies relish Shrine Bowl moment
    -- Experience much more than a game for Brady Collingham
    Brady Collingham pulled his helmet, now covered with a variety of logos from other schools, off for the last time to reveal a big smile. 
    The smile didn’t have much to do with the game’s end result, but everything to do with his life-changing week as part of the Shrine Bowl experience. 
    -- Jameson Herzberg enjoys final football experience Saturday
    The look of emotion on Jameson Herzberg’s face after the final whistle was not only evident, but wide-ranging. 
    The now former Husky sported his signature grin, but his eyes had welled up a bit, even if just for a moment. Herzberg took plenty of photos with family, his high school teammates and even some new friends he made just last week.

    ‘Online’: What could be the first race horse in Hamilton County
    There’s a good possibility Hamilton County saw its first race horse all the way back in 1890. 
    According to documents found at the Plainsman Museum in Aurora, a newspaper article noted that world-record breaking horse “Online” ran faster than them all.
    “When G. W. Curry of Aurora purchased ‘Online’ as a one-year-old in 1890 neither he, or any of the horse racing enthusiasts in this small midwestern town of a few hundred people, had any expectation that the scrawny long-legged mare was destined to set a new world’s record and bring fame and fortune to its backers and the small Nebraska town in which they lived,” the article reads. “Yet, a year later in 1891, after intensive grooming and training by Emanuel Smith, ‘Online’ set the world’s record as a two year old at Denver, Colo. Time 2.11.” 

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