Since all events, meetings, and gatherings are cancelled for the foreseeable future, the Springfield newsletter will bring you news of announcements, important updates, fun tips, and maybe a joke or two. Check in for current information of up-to-the minute news. We’ll do what we can to make it through these times. Hang in there everyone!
Our local Covid-19 information resource provides up-to-minute updates:
Sarpy Cass Health Department
https://www.sarpycasshealthdepartment.org/
SARPY COUNTY HELP LINE
The Sarpy County Sheriff's Office along with Sarpy County Human Services has established a help line for the citizens of Sarpy County during the COVID-19 pandemic event. Starting today, people who are sick, elderly, or caretakers of this demographic in Sarpy County may call the Sarpy County Sheriff Helpline at 402-593-1593 for needs such as picking up prescriptions, groceries, or other necessities. A uniformed Sarpy County Sheriff's Deputy will pick up and deliver these items in a marked police cruiser. This helpline may also be utilized by the general public to make non-emergency police reports via telephone that do not require a police officer present in their home.
The following providers are participating in this program:
Walmart in Papillion
Target in Papillion (Groceries Only)
Bakers at 36th St & Twin Creek Dr
Bakers at 801 Galvin Rd (Pharmacy Only)
Springfield Drug (Pharmacy Only)
Please check the Sheriff's Office website and Facebook Page for any new updates to this program.
USEFUL RESOURCES DURING THE PANDEMIC
https://www.unitedwaymidlands.org/2-1-1/
https://www.nebraskachildren.org/covid-19-information-and-resources.html
-- https://www.thekimfoundation.org/
MEDICAL CARE FOR CHILDREN & TEENS
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center has launched a dedicated Respiratory Assessment Center to address symptoms of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, in children and teens. The Respiratory Assessment Center is located on Children’s main campus at 84th & Dodge Streets. Please enter off of 84th Street at the Specialty Pediatric Center entrance, make an immediate right and park; the center’s entrance is south of the main Specialty Pediatric Center entrance.
Symptoms consistent with COVID-19 are: fever, cough, shortness of breath and/or sore throat. If your child has these symptoms or you are concerned about a potential exposure, please call your primary care provider or Children’s COVID-19 Help Line at 402-955-3200.
If this is an urgent matter and your child needs immediate care on nights or weekends, please go directly to the Respiratory Assessment Center—not Children’s Urgent Care. Children’s Urgent Care will be sending patients with potentially infected respiratory symptoms to the center for care.
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Reminder!
Return your early voting ballot request
Voting Information:
www.sarpy.com/offices/election-commission
Pantry Needs: Help our Local Pantry
ATTN:
Springfield Cemetery is in need of Board Members for maintenance and decision making for upkeep of our cemetery. Please contact Rod Nielsen
402-290-4873 email:
SPRINGFIELD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
ALL SERVICES FOR THE TIME BEING BY STREAMING ONLY!
4/9 – Maundy Thursday will be a pre-recorded narrative sermon with recorded music
4/10 – Good Friday will be a pre-recorded narrative sermon with recorded music
4/12 – Sunrise Service will be a pre-recorded Easter play by the Confirmation class
9:30 Easter service will be a live sermon with skeleton crew and a pre-recorded Cantata by the Choir
Shop Local
Please remember to support Springfield’s local businesses during this difficult time.
Local restaurants/ cafes providing carry out or drive through service:
Black Sheep Coffee House
Sweet Rice Thai Food
Runza Restaurant
Trojan Tavern
Valentino’s
Wicked Hen
Open for business:
Springfield Drug & Soda Fountain
Do a home project! Get your supplies at Ace Hardware
Soaring Wings Vineyard: open plus delivery service available
These and all Springfield businesses need your support to survive these difficult times.
Flower Power Fundraiser
The growing season is fast approaching! Upgrade your landscape with flowers by shopping from home (which we are all doing right now) and support the Friends of the Library. The Flower Power fundraiser gives back 50% of all sales and deliveries are sent directly to your door with a flat shipping rate of $6.00 per order. A 100% grow guarantee comes with all products. Log on to our special website to shop:
https://www.flowerpowerfundraising.com/springfieldmemoriallibraryfriends
IT HAPPENED IN SPRINGFIELD HISTORY
The Springfield Opera House was constructed in the years 1891 and 1892. It located on the northwest corner of 3rd & Main Street. The first amateur performance “Border Land”, a wild west drama was held on February 19 & 20, 1892. The house was filled to capacity and the play was pronounced a success. Many amateur plays were performed in the years following. The Opera House was truly a community center. It was the place for graduation exercises, alumni banquets, church bazaars and dinners, home-talent plays, the "Clint and Bessie Robbins" road shows, the Winter Chautauqua, Farmers' Institute, Lodge meetings, and public dances. By 1939, the Opera House had been torn down.
“A woman at our checkout counter didn’t have enough money to cover her purchase of toilet paper, so I paid the 96 cents. “Thank you,” she said. “I’m going to think of you every time I use this paper.”
*Reference: Reader’s Digest
OPPD makes nearly $34 million in payments in lieu of tax
Sarpy County’s share is $5.5 million
Omaha Public Power District distributed nearly $34 million today for in-lieu-of-tax payments to 11 southeast Nebraska counties. That’s up slightly from nearly $33.9 million distributed last year.
OPPD’s payment to Sarpy County totaled $5,540,436, up from $5,112,950 paid last year.
In-lieu-of-tax payment amounts are based on 5% of OPPD’s gross revenues from the previous year’s retail electricity sales in incorporated cities and towns, and they take the place of property taxes.
“This is one way we, as a public power utility, give back to our customers and contribute to our communities,” said OPPD Board Chair Craig Moody. “We know that these funds will be put to good use within the counties we serve.”
County treasurers distribute the funds to school districts, cities and other entities to fund needed services and improvements.
In addition to in-lieu-of-tax payments, the district pays general sales taxes, gasoline taxes, motor vehicle license fees and permit fees like any other business. A full list of the payments made to each county follows:
Douglas: $26,957,456
Sarpy: $5,540,436
Washington: $650,426
Saunders: $320,521
Cass: $279,762
Dodge: $143,759
Nemaha: $40,352
Johnson: $15,023
Richardson: $13,717
Otoe: $4,122
Colfax: $4,316
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OPPD’s Mission:
Provide affordable, reliable and environmentally sensitive energy services to our customers
WHAT TO DO WHILE YOU’RE HOME
Learn to juggle
Plant some seeds
Play hide and seek
Write a letter
Start a Journal
Watch the sunrise or sunset
Go for a bike ride
Organize your pantry
Fix something or finish that project
Donate blood
Learn a song from start to finish (memorize all the words)
Plan a surprise for someone you love
Funny Headline:
Self-Proclaimed Invisible Man No-Show at Court Hearing (The Daily Herald, Provo Utah)
Joke of the Week
* Question: How do you make a pirate furious?
* Answer: Take away the p.
HAPPENING NEARBY
EAST CASS PIONEER CEMETERY DISTRICT
Due to the COVID-19 virus, social distancing, and closure of Murray Town Hall, the meeting of the East Cass Pioneer Cemetery District on April 13th will be held online at 7 pm.
If you would like to join the meeting, please email Judy before Monday, April 13th, at
ALL SHOWS CANCELED TILL FURTHER NOTICE!
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“2nd SUNDAY JAM SESSIONS”:
JAM SESSIONS CANCELED TILL FURTHER NOTICE!
~Goodness is the only investment that never fail
-Henry David Thoreau
Thanks to all Springfield E-Newsletter readers.
Connie Manzer
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