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PHOTO: A color JPEG image of Doc Severinsen is available for download at the University Communications website.
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WHEN: Monday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th Street

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 20, 2012 — “Heeeeere’s Johnny!” That lead-in, followed by a big band trumpet blast, was a staple of late-night television for three decades. The “Johnny” was Johnny Carson, the announcer was Ed McMahon and the bandleader was Doc Severinsen. Now, at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 27,  Severinson will bring his iconic big band sound back to the Lied Center for Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Severinsen’s band has always been composed of “The Tonight Show’s” best musicians — including Ed Shaughnessy on drums, Ernie Watts on tenor sax and Snooky Young on trumpet. Their repertoire includes Ellington and Basie standards, pop, jazz, ballads, big band classics and, of course, “The Tonight Show” theme.
The veteran trumpeter and bandleader has made more than 30 albums, ranging from big-band to jazz fusion to classical. He received a Grammy Award in 1987 for “Best Jazz instrumental Performance-Big Band” for his recording of “Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band-Volume I.” His latest release, “Doc Severinsen and His Big Band/Swingin’ the Blues,” is a collaboration with Shaughnessy and Watts.
Tickets are $39, $35 and $29 and may be purchased online at www.liedcenter.org <http://www.liedcenter.org> , by calling 402-472-4747 <tel:402-472-4747>  or at the Lied Center, 301 N. 12th St.
Dean Haist, local trumpet player and Arts Inc. executive director, will give a pre-talk in the Lied’s Steinhart Room at 7 p.m.
The Lied Center for Performing Arts is a state-of-the-art performing arts facility. Opened in 1990, it is Nebraska’s “Home for the Arts” offering major regional, national and international events designed to attract, entertain and inspire a statewide audience. The Lied Center and its programs are made possible through the generous 2011-12 season support of Christina Hixson and the Lied Foundation Trust, Friends of Lied, Ameritas and Union Bank.
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The Beatrice We Remember committee is sponsoring “Zimmerman Springs” by Beatrice’s own, Bob Oates, to be held at the Beatrice Public Library, February 21, 2012, starting at 7:00pm.  Bob is the owner of the site known as Zimmerman Springs. The citizens of Beatrice were in need of a reliable source of water when Dean Dempster, of Dempster Mill Manufacturing discovered an ample supply of the clearest, coldest, purest water that flowed through an underground cave on the Zimmerman property, northwest of Beatrice on the Big Blue River. Dempster purchased an option on the property, at the company’s own expense, and set in pipes and pumps to learn the capacity of the water. A geologist from the state university gave the ground an examination, and pronounced it the only underground river he had ever seen. Dempsters turned the contract for the springs over to the City of Beatrice at cost. Dempster Mill Manufacturing never received compensation for their risk in researching and testing the water.  This site, called Dempster Park, rivaled the Chautauqua grounds in its beauty and people from Beatrice arrived by boat to picnic and enjoy the park.  Many people will remember this site as the Shrine Park, but few know it as the CCC Camp (Civilian Conservation Corps.) This camp trained underprivileged, single young men to earn money by making civic and agricultural improvements during the 1930s.  Bob Oates will be glad to answer questions and the Beatrice We Remember Committee will share information on the book they are compiling. For more information call 402-228-1679 or email gagecountymuseum@beatricene.com

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We would like to congratulate Lincoln Artist’s Guild newsletter designer, Joel Brehm for his amazing accomplishment!
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In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and where he was going. His chronicle of this journey charts his experiences with the seldom-seen people of the small towns, the far-flung outposts, and the Great Plains that make up “our America.”

Beginning as a seeker, Dobson becomes a faithful recorder of other people’s search for contentment, introducing us to a firefighter with a farm at the end of the world, a fiery Christian conservative, a man sharing a van with a crowd of cats, a former circus carny who’s found the secret to living life, and a homeless Native American offering a special and enduring gift. Ridden out of a hostile Kansas town, sniffed by bears, confronted by bison and  recalcitrant moose, Dobson cannot help but see how land, sky, weather, and a world of circumstances influence people. Against the majestic sweep of the open plains and endless horizon, his story is one of hope and desperation, richness and simplicity—a portrait of who we are in the heartland of America.

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We’ve built something very Special here. Something we believe in so strongly we’re willing to bet the farm on it. Holl- enbeck Farms, to be exact. That’s our family farm, where we graze our own cattle, free of any hormones, steroids or antibiot- ics. We can guarantee the beef that we make your burger with here, is the same beef we use to make burgers for our very own family.