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🌱 How outside EMS proposals could reshape emergency care in Aurora
What's up Aurora! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How outside EMS proposals could reshape emergency care in Aurora
Also on today's calendar: Reuben Adkins.
Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Winds becoming strong; cooler, with a high of 61 and low of 29 degrees.
- Saturday: Winds becoming strong, temps: high: 60, low: 33.
- Sunday: Sunny and pleasant, with a high of 73 and low of 38 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Aurora City Council Votes to Open EMS to Outside Proposals (wowt.com) — Aurora’s city council has voted 4–0 to invite outside proposals on how to run the city’s EMS department, aiming to help close an $800,000 annual budget shortfall. More than 150 residents packed the meeting, with opinions split over potential privatization and possible options like shrinking the department, raising property taxes, or pursuing a voter-approved sales tax. 
📸 Around Aurora
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Nebraska through Song and Story
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Monday April 20
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Reuben Adkins
Memorial Community Care , 1423 7th St , Aurora
1:30 pm
Thursday April 23
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Wings Over the Platte
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Find Your Joy Afternoon Tea Party
Kilgore Memorial Library , 520 N Nebraska Ave , York
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'26 Create 308 Dance Presents: WORLD TOUR
Northwest High School , 2710 North Rd , Grand Island
4:00 pm -
2026 York University Banquet
Holthus Convention Center , 3130 Holen Ave , York
5:45 pm -
NHS Induction
Heartland Community High Sch Henderson, NE 68371
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Trivia Night WEDNESDAY 7p - Buffalo Wild Wings - Grand Island NE
Buffalo Wild Wings , 809 Allen Dr , Grand Island
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This is the Hour Mission @ York, NE
St Joseph's Catholic School , 428 N E Ave , York
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Liederkranz Live: Robert Deitch
Liederkranz , 401 W 1st St , Grand Island
7:00 pm
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🗞 Nearby News
Grand Island
- Grand Island Catholic students clean community on Service Day (ksnblocal4.com)
- Grand Island Parks and Recreation program to focus on active aging (theindependent.com)
- Grand Island woman convicted in theft from Willow Rising (ksnblocal4.com)
York
- York golf seventh at host invite (yorknewstimes.com)
Ok Aurora! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!
-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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