The Sarpy County Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual State of the County forum May 13, drawing business leaders, elected officials and community stakeholders for three hours of presentations on workforce development, legislation, economic incentives and the national fiscal outlook.
MCC Eyes Sarpy Footprint
Metropolitan Community College has owned 145 acres at the corner of Highway 370 and Highway 50 since 2014, but plans to build on the site are now moving in earnest. Nate Barry, Ph.D., vice president for strategic operations and initiatives, told attendees the board of governors approved the land as MCC’s fourth campus in 2023, and infrastructure work — grading, roads, sewer and electrical — is on track for completion within the next 12 months.
Leading With Heart
BY DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN
Three weeks after opening the Behavioral Health & Wellness Center, Chanda Chacón sat in the lobby watching families walk through the door.
A mother approached the welcome desk. “I heard that you have a different way to help kids feel comfortable and get them out of the car to come in to be screened,” she said.
The team explained the process: a garagelike bay where families can drive in, the door closes, and trained therapists work to de-escalate the situation before the child even exits the vehicle. It looks welcoming, not sterile. It takes as long as it takes.
The mother’s body language shifted. “My husband and son are in the parking lot right now.”
“There was not another option. There was not another choice,” Chacón said. “I struggle to think that there will be anything else in my career that will have as big of an impact as this work has had.”
The Salvation Army of Omaha’s 2026 DJ’s Hero Awards Luncheon, held April 28 at CHI Health Center Omaha, was a record-setting event in more ways than one. The gathering awarded an unprecedented 19 scholarships to Nebraska
The $114 million center addresses a crisis affecting one in five Nebraska children. But for Chacón, the work is deeply personal, shaped by a childhood injury that required her to navigate a complex health care system and a decade spent as a court-appointed advocate for children in foster care.
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Nebraska Medicine houses 18 affected
The MV Hondius, anchored near Tenerife in the Canary Islands, was found to have the Andes variant of hantavirus on board, and, on May 10, 2026, a total of 94 passengers from 19 nationalities were evacuated from the ship. Of those 94, Eighteen American passengers were flown to a Offutt Air Force Base, 16 of whom were then transported to the National Quarantine Center at the University of Nebraska and two were taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta to ensure appropriate capacity is maintained in
01 A CLOSER LOOK: LEADING WITH HEART CHACÓN BRINGS PERSONAL MISSION TO PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE
01 SARPY COUNTY NEWS: SARPY LOOKS AHEAD FORUM SPEAKERS OUTLINE CAMPUS, LEGISLATION AND INCENTIVE WINS
01 HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK: RECORD-SETTING EVENT DJ’S HERO AWARDS SETS RECORD FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, FUNDRAISING
03 MBJ BUSINESS INSIDER: THINGS TO KNOW
04 FROM THE EDITOR: BEYOND THE CORNER OFFICE A CLOSER LOOK REVEALS WHAT TITLES DON’T TELL YOU
the Biocontainment Unit should additional passengers need medical care. One passenger tested positive, although was asymptomatic, and was sent to the Biocontainment Unit while the other 15 were sent to quarrantine.
Hantavirus is a rare virus carried by rodents that can cause serious illness in some people. There are several variants but only the Andes virus is known to spread between people.
As of presstime, All passengers in Nebraska are asymptomatic.
12 A CLOSER LOOK: ART MEETS BUSINESS HOW A LIFE IMMERSED IN THE ARTS SHAPES OMAHA STEAKS’ CEO
15 GOVERNMENT NEWS: NEBRASKA LEADS NATION • ARCH WINS COMPASS AWARD • NDOT SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT
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22 WEEKLY MARKET COMMENTARY: AI’S CAPITAL CYCLE IS JUST GETTING STARTED
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CLOSER LOOK REVEALS WHAT TITLES DON’T TELL YOU
Jeff Russell listens to the Dave Matthews Band. This fact appears nowhere in his official biography as president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, which is unfortunate because it tells you more about decision-making than most leadership frameworks. People who’ve followed DMB for decades understand the value of improvisation within structure, the necessity of adaptation when the plan changes mid-performance, and the reward of showing up for the long haul. That’s executive thinking disguised as concert attendance.
Todd Simon cares about Omaha’s arts scene. Chanda Chacón cooks. Mary Hawkins remains passionate about education despite running a university, which sounds redundant until you consider how many higher education administrators treat learning as a product to be packaged rather than a mission to be championed. These details emerged during conversations for A Closer Look, the profile series MBJ launched last year specifically because titles obscure more than they reveal.
We started A Closer Look because our core readership — business owners and executives — deserves content that acknowledges their complexity. The typical executive profile offers the same sanitized narrative: childhood ambition, steady climb, current responsibilities, vague commitment to excellence. It’s the professional equivalent of a graduation photo: technically accurate but strategically incomplete. People don’t make decisions, build organizations, or navigate crises based solely on credentials and org charts. They draw on everything they are, which includes what they do when the laptop closes and the quarterly earnings call ends.
Russell’s affinity for Dave Matthews Band isn’t tangential to his work leading one of Nebraska’s largest health insurers through a period of unprecedented industry disruption. It’s evidence of someone who understands that excellence requires both discipline and flexibility, that the best outcomes emerge when talented people trust each other enough to take risks, and that you can’t phone it in year after year and expect the audience to stay engaged. Those principles apply to insurance networks as much as they apply to three-hour concerts.
Simon’s personal investment in Omaha’s arts community mirrors the institutional commitment Omaha Steaks makes to cultural organizations across the city. That alignment matters. Fifth-generation family businesses don’t survive by accident. They survive because leadership understands that a thriving company requires a thriving city, and a thriving city requires the kind of cultural infrastructure that makes talented people want to stay. When a chairman’s personal values match corporate priorities, it’s not coincidence. It’s proof that the mission runs deeper than marketing.
Chacón’s love of cooking matters because running Children’s Nebraska means making decisions where stakes don’t get higher and margin for error doesn’t get smaller. Cooking teaches you to respect process, trust your preparation, adapt when something goes wrong, and accept that sometimes you execute perfectly and the soufflé still falls. Those lessons transfer. Healthcare leadership demands the same combination of technical precision, situational awareness, and grace under pressure that separates good cooks from great ones.
Hawkins’ continued passion for education—actual teaching and learning, not just institutional management—keeps Bellevue University focused on the work that matters. Universities face enormous pressure to operate like corporations, optimize for metrics that don’t measure learning, and treat students as customers rather than scholars. A president who remembers why education matters in the first place can resist that drift. Passion for the mission isn’t soft leadership. It’s the foundation that allows hard decisions to serve the right goals.
These moments of connection are precisely why A Closer Look exists. MBJ readers run companies, lead divisions, make hiring decisions, and allocate capital. They benefit from understanding how other executives think, not just what they’ve accomplished. The official biography tells you where someone went to school and which positions they’ve held. The conversation about Dave Matthews Band tells you how they approach uncertainty, what they value in collaboration, and whether they understand that showing up matters more than looking perfect.
The four executives profiled in this issue lead different organizations serving different purposes, but they share something beyond competence. They remained whole people despite reaching positions that encourage you to sand off the edges and become the role. That’s harder than it sounds. Executive leadership creates constant pressure to perform a specific version of professionalism that excludes most of what makes you human. Resisting that pressure—staying connected to music, cooking, arts, education, whatever grounds you— isn’t work-life balance. It’s maintaining access to the full range of thinking and feeling that makes good leadership possible.
That’s what A Closer Look provides: access to the person operating the title, pursuing the mission, making the calls. We’ll keep providing it because our readers deserve that level of content, and these executives deserve that level of attention.
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State incentive bills hailed at CLAAS
Gov. Jim Pillen joined lawmakers, chambers and business leaders at CLAAS in Omaha to spotlight LB 1165 and LB 847 as proof Nebraska is “open for business.” The Grow the Good Life Act offers performance - based tax credits up to $50 million over 10 years to keep headquarters and high - wage jobs after mergers, while expanding childcare-linked incentives and a new retention and recruitment grant program.
UNMC opens military medicine office
The University of Nebraska Medical Center created the Office for the Advancement of Military Medicine to coordinate military - medicine, biodefense and civilian - military health initiatives. Retired Air Force Col. Lee Williames, MD, will lead the office, with Lauren Sauer, PhD, as deputy director. The unit will work closely with UNMC’s Global Center for Health Security and a forthcoming $17.4 million infectious disease air transport training facility in Omaha.
Nominations open for Sower Award
Humanities Nebraska is accepting nominations for its annual Sower Award in the Humanities, honoring individuals who advance public understanding of the humanities in the state. Nominations are due June 12. The award will be presented Oct. 27 before the Governor’s Lecture at the Lied Center in Lincoln, featuring author Nathaniel Philbrick on Revolutionary War history and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Hilgers files mifepristone court brief
Nebraska Attorney General Michael Hilgers filed an amicus brief on behalf of 23 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to keep in place a lower - court stay of a 2023 FDA rule loosening in - person dispensing rules for abortion pill mifepristone. In it, he argued the rule lets out-of-state doctors mail pills into Nebraska, undercutting state law, while Louisiana’s underlying lawsuit challenges the rule as scientifically and procedurally flawed.
NRSC touts April jobs, tax refunds
The National Republican Senatorial Committee says 115,000 jobs were added nationwide in April under President Donald Trump and Sen. Pete Ricketts’ leadership, beating expectations, and claims tax refunds rose 11% year - over - year under Working Families Tax Cuts. The release hits Senate hopeful Dan Osborn as aligned with “reckless” Democratic spending and pitches GOP tax and regulatory policy as key to reviving growth for Nebraska workers and employers.
Union Omaha stadium wins tax aid
A state sports financing board led by Gov. Pillen approved up to $25 million in state sales tax turnback financing for Union Omaha’s planned 6,500-seat downtown stadium and 20 - acre entertainment district. The decision follows Omaha City Council approval of $48 million in tax - increment financing for the roughly $330 - million project and moves the soccer - anchored development closer to breaking ground later this year.
Omaha housing permits show strength
A May 1 analysis of federal permit data shows Omaha on pace to add thousands of new homes in 2026, reflecting steady single - family and multifamily construction. While not a boom compared with faster-growing Sun Belt metros, the numbers suggest builders are gradually expanding supply to meet demand. Economists say interest rates and construction costs remain key variables for affordability and project timing.
Ted Turner’s Nebraska tax legacy
The May 6 death of CNN founder Ted Turner at 87 is raising new questions about nearly half a million acres of Sandhills ranchland he accumulated as Nebraska’s largest landowner and a key property tax payer. In 2021, Turner pledged his ecoagriculture nonprofit would keep paying taxes on donated ranches, easing rural fears about lost revenue. Legal experts say his heirs could still seek exemptions, potentially costing counties like Cherry County hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
Omaha job growth concerns resurface
A recent report circulating in early May highlights concerns that Omaha’s job growth is lagging several peer Midwest metros. The analysis notes relatively modest gains in key sectors and questions whether the region is doing enough to attract and retain talent. Business leaders point to new incentive tools, targeted training programs and stronger recruitment campaigns as steps toward strengthening long-term competitiveness.
Western Iowa road work impacts travel
Early May updates from western Iowa highlight ongoing and upcoming highway and bridge work across the region. Temporary lane closures and detours will affect commuting and freight traffic connecting to the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro through at least mid - summer. Local officials urge drivers and carriers serving the area to build in extra time, monitor daily advisories and treat work zones cautiously as construction progresses.
Western Iowa crop outlook mixed
Early - season reports from western Iowa point to a mixed crop outlook as producers contend with soggy fields in some areas and lingering dry pockets in others. Grain and livestock producers say weather in the next several weeks will be crucial for planting progress and pasture conditions. The uncertainty matters for Omaha - area agribusiness, processors and lenders closely tied to farm income and rural spending.
Chambers back new incentive mix
Leaders from the Greater Omaha Chamber, Nebraska Chamber and Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development praised Nebraska’s new performance - based incentive package as a “big and bold” step for competitiveness. They say the updated tools protect taxpayers while helping the state retain key employers, expand manufacturing, support working families through childcare and other benefits, and attract high-wage jobs. The groups expect a strong return on investment in job creation and capital investment statewide.
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Pacific merger stakes spotlighted
Coverage of Nebraska’s revamped incentive framework and recent testimony has highlighted the stakes of Union Pacific’s planned rail merger for Omaha. Business groups say the tools are partly aimed at keeping the railroad’s headquarters and high-value jobs in the state if corporate decisions favor the buyer’s home base. They argue that retaining executive, tech and operations roles would protect a major pillar of the Omaha regional economy.
Tourism awards spotlight metro firms
The 2026 Outstanding Metropolitan Area Tourism Awards recognized top visitor - serving businesses in both Douglas and Pottawattamie Counties, underscoring how tourism supports the broader Omaha–Council Bluffs economy. The awards highlight operators that draw visitors, generate sales tax revenue and feed new customers to neighborhood businesses year-round.
In Douglas County, Joslyn Art Museum was named best attraction, with Great Plains Black Museum as runner-up. Kimpton Cottonwood was selected best hotel, with Omaha Marriott Regency runner - up. Big Mama’s Kitchen earned best restaurant, followed by Kinaara, while City Limits won best retail business, with Ashley’s in the Old Market as runner-up.
On the Iowa side, Arrowhead Park was named best attraction and Dreamland Theater runner-up. Judge Richard Distillery Airbnb received best hotel honors, with Courtyard by Marriott Council Bluffs as runner-up. The Back Forty Bar & Grill was chosen best restaurant, followed by 712 Eat + Drink, and Central Perch took best retail business, with Dusted Charm as runner-up.
Cash grain, farm margins in focus
Western Iowa’s early May cash grain reports show local bid prices for corn and soybeans remain below recent peaks, keeping pressure on producer margins. Elevators in the region are posting mid - $4 bids for fall corn and low-$11 bids for fall soybeans, prompting some farmers to delay additional sales. The pricing environment is closely watched by Omaha - area lenders, equipment dealers and ag-serving businesses tied to crop receipts.
Chamber names excellence awardees
The Greater Omaha Chamber, in partnership with Premier Bank, announced its 2026 Business Excellence Award winners, honoring companies for civic engagement, culture, innovation, philanthropy and sustained excellence. ACCESSbank, Carson Group and Riekes Equipment were recognized for long - term performance, while honorees such as Front Porch Investments, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands, Aviture, Outlook Nebraska and Bridges Trust were celebrated for strengthening Greater Omaha’s community and economy.
A CLOSER look
Leading With Heart CHACÓN BRINGS PERSONAL
MISSION TO PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE
MBJ: How did your 10 years as a child advocate in Houston shape your leadership?
Chacón: Child advocacy gave me a lens into the challenges children face navigating complex systems without a voice. My commitment is personal; a childhood car wreck changed my life’s trajectory. I’ve represented many children in court, and that experience solidified my understanding of how vital it is to help families navigate the healthcare system.
MBJ: The Behavioral Health & Wellness Center filled its 40 beds within three days. What does that say about the region’s needs?
Chacón: Initial volumes were 200% higher than predicted, with staggering acuity. This demand confirms a desperate, silent crisis. Our differentiator is the crisis assessment center, which allows us to stabilize children and find the right level of care — whether inpatient or community-based — to avoid unnecessary trauma while ensuring a roadmap for recovery. We had a young man come into our crisis assessment center, and he had been struggling. After he’d been assessed and we had him in a stable environment, he said, “This is the first time I have felt heard and comforted in such a long time. It feels safe to be here, and I feel like you’re listening to me. My girlfriend has been struggling with depression and she sought care and it hasn’t worked. Can I call her and tell her about my experience?”
The team was like, “Absolutely.” He called her and he said, “This place feels safe. It feels different.”
MBJ: You’ve led Children’s Nebraska through about $525 million in growth in five years: the Hubbard Center, the behavioral health center, digital health innovation, rural expansion. You’ve also grown your workforce by 33%. How do you know you’re not moving faster than the organization can absorb?
Chacón: The way that I look at leadership is that everyone doesn’t have to know everything. I feel really confident in what I know, and I also feel really confident in what I don’t know. I surround myself and our team with people who have the knowledge so that together as a team, we run the organization and we lead. It allows me the time to do the things on the federal side and the organizations — the Children’s Hospital Association, the American Hospital Association — that I need to be doing as a CEO, because I’ve empowered strong people on my team to do the work that helps our organization run every day.
That for me is a way to model the way. I think that’s really important for CEOs to do, to model how they want others to behave and offer that up. It’s OK to do that. You should be taking care of yourself. I go to yoga frequently and I call it self-care, and I tell people that because the small things you do to take care of yourself not only make you great at home, they make you great here.
MBJ: You’ve worked at Texas Children’s and Arkansas Children’s, both larger organizations with more resources. What have you accomplished in Nebraska specifically because it’s smaller, not despite it?
Chacón: I think the Behavioral Health and Wellness Center is the best example of that. The reason that happened so quickly is because of the support of the community. It’s because of the support of our state. What I love about being in Nebraska is that individuals can have an impact. We know each other. We have personal connections. It’s not just something we say, it’s what we do in action. In larger metros, projects of this scale can get bogged down in layers of bureaucracy for a decade.
The ability for us to move as quickly as we have moved in the last five years to build depth of resources in our organization, depth of specialties — we’ve grown in just our people by 33%. That is incredible to have done that in less than five years and to have some of the highest retention rates of employees in our field.
MBJ: You’ve written about resilience and preventing burnout. You also chair United Way, serve on the Chamber Executive Committee, sit on multiple
CHACÓN FROM PAGE 01
Initial volumes were 200% higher than predicted, with staggering acuity. This demand confirms a desperate, silent crisis.
— CHANDA CHACÓN
national boards, and lead massive organizational growth. What are the signs you might be ignoring that would tell someone else you’re doing too much?
Chacón: That’s a great question. When I was told in my career, growing up as a leader, that the depth that I cared about people and individuals was not in line with typical CEOs, my leadership coaches said, “Chanda, you don’t answer these questions like a typical CEO.” And I said, “Good. I am not a typical CEO. I have broken that mold.”
My depth of caring for individuals makes my job harder because I care deeply about the decisions that we’re making, because we are taking care of people’s children. Leading people is hard, and I feel entrusted with that role of caring about the people that work on our team. During COVID, I feel like that was one of my best skills: being able to care deeply about people, feel very comfortable in who I am, that I was able to be vulnerable and tell people, “Here’s what’s hard for me. Here’s how we need to go. And I know the light at the end of the tunnel is bright, and we’re going to go together.” Vulnerability in a CEO was once seen as a weakness, but in times of crisis, it becomes the ultimate bridge to trust.
In the last five years of where healthcare has come, I now see that as an essential strength that CEOs have to have. It’s now likely if I took another one of those tests, I would align differently with who can be successful in this industry. That’s been really important to me — to be human. As we look at technology advancing, the human part of this work is equally as important.
MBJ: What do you wish someone would ask you about the Behavioral Health and Wellness Center?
Chacón: The stories of families experiencing us, the stories our team has; we didn’t just build a facility that meets the needs of patients and families, we built a facility that meets the needs of the team members serving in it. That is so unique and so different.
The reason we were able to do that is because we had an amazing partner and donor like Ken Stinson, who said, “How do we make this the very best? How do we make this different than what’s in the market now?”
QUICK HITS
LAST BOOK YOU READ THAT CHANGED HOW YOU THINK ABOUT LEADERSHIP?
“PUTTING PATIENTS SECOND.” IT’S AWKWARD TO CARRY AROUND A HOSPITAL, SO I TOOK THE COVER OFF. IT TRANSFORMED AND SUPPORTED THE WAY I LED, OF PUTTING THE PEOPLE ON YOUR TEAM FIRST. WHEN YOU MAKE DECISIONS THAT PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE ON YOUR TEAM, AMAZING PATIENT OUTCOMES HAPPEN.
YOU PLAYED SAXOPHONE AND WERE DRUM MAJOR IN HIGH SCHOOL. WHAT ABOUT MUSIC RELATES TO YOUR WORK IN HEALTHCARE THAT PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE?
IT’S INTERESTING: I’VE RUN INTO SO MANY PEOPLE IN HEALTHCARE THAT ALSO HAVE A SIMILAR HISTORY WITH MUSIC THAT I DO. I DO THINK THAT NO MATTER WHAT BACKGROUND YOU COME FROM, WHAT LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK, WHERE YOU’RE FROM, MUSIC IS A CONNECTOR.
YOU WROTE ABOUT NEEDING TO “KNOW WHAT FILLS YOUR OWN CUP.” WHAT FILLS YOURS?
MY HUSBAND AND I LOVE FOOD, AND WE LOVE UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT FOOD. IT’S HOW WE GET TO KNOW A COMMUNITY IN A CITY, BY EXPLORING WITH FOOD. I ALSO LOVE TO DECORATE. I LIKE TO FIND THINGS THAT DON’T LOOK LIKE THEY’D FIT IN MY HOME AND FIX THEM, PAINT THEM, REFURNISH THEM. OFTEN PEOPLE WILL COME INTO MY HOUSE AND SAY, “WHO HELPED YOU DECORATE?” AND I SAY, “ME. I DID IT.”
WHAT’S ONE THING ABOUT OMAHA YOU DIDN’T EXPECT WHEN YOU MOVED HERE?
THE DEEP CONNECTION PEOPLE HAVE WITH EACH OTHER. IT’S A BIGGER CITY THAN I CAME FROM IN ARKANSAS, AND I THOUGHT THE CITY WOULD HAVE TO BE SMALLER TO HAVE THAT LEVEL OF CONNECTION. I THINK WE LIVE IN A CITY THAT HAS BIG RESOURCES AND INDIVIDUALS CAN STILL MAKE AN IMPACT.
YOU HAVE A RARE NIGHT IN WITH YOUR FAMILY. WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAT TAKES YOUR FOCUS COMPLETELY OFF WORK?
I LOVE TO COOK. COVID MADE ME A GREAT COOK. I’M NOT A CHEF AND I’M A TERRIBLE BAKER, BUT I LOVE TO COOK. MY HUSBAND WILL FLICK THROUGH NETFLIX OR PARAMOUNT FOR LIKE AN HOUR AND A HALF TO TRY TO FIND SOMETHING TO WATCH.
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A CLOSER look
Not a Mini-Muffin Person
HAWKINS BUILT BY BETTING ON OVERLOOKED LEARNERS
BY DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN
Mary Hawkins was determined to avoid education. Then she married an Air Force officer, moved to a small town where nobody would hire her and started responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) for military-based training positions out of necessity. That was 1981.
She spent the next 14 years on military bases and community college campuses. Along the way she earned a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology. Locally, she has launched a South Omaha outreach and scholarship program and became one of the few non-Hispanic recipients of the Mexican government’s Ohtli Award for her work with the Latino community.
She arrived at Bellevue University in 1995 as vice president of enrollment and outreach. Now, over 30 years later, she is its president. The university operates 96% online, serves students across more than 70 programs and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top schools for working adults and military personnel. The small, regional institution she joined has reinvented itself several times over, each time toward the people the traditional higher education system tends to overlook.
She sat down with Midlands Business Journal to talk about North Stars, mini muffins and leading as yourself.
MBJ: You have said you were determined to avoid education as a career. Then you married into the Air Force, moved to a small town where jobs were scarce and started responding to military training RFPs out of necessity. What did that experience teach you about who gets locked out of opportunity?
Hawkins: It was sort of an odd juxtaposition. They thought I was going to leave — military spouses move — but they also thought I was going to steal their business. Kind of weird. I think people worry about hiring older workers because they won’t stay forever, or they hire people with really strong qualifications and think they’re going to leave. What they should do is look at those folks and think, I have an opportunity to bring this talent into the organization, even if it’s only for two or three years.
Living on base also gave me an experience with military life and military families. Military spouses are tremendously strong people. They’re able to manage the households and the families and the moves and the changes and stresses that the military person in their family deals with.
MBJ: You were asked to run the industrial tech division at a community college with a liberal arts and business background. What did you actually do in those first months when you had no idea what you were doing?
Hawkins: I thought (the VP) had lost her marbles. I said to Karen Wells, ‘Seriously, what are you thinking?’ But what I realized within days of taking the position was that I had to figure out a guidepost for making decisions when I didn’t really understand the specifics of what was being asked of me. So I created for myself a North Star. This college’s mission, their purpose, is to help these students get into tech careers in a way that serves the employers and the community. I didn’t have to analyze every detail. I just had to know: what is the community using, what do these students need to know before they graduate?
Then I did the work. I drove to Kansas City, visited Metropolitan Community College, saw how they had built their automotive program around ASE certification and borrowed their materials. We brought the model back, worked through it with the automotive faculty, and then Toyota got a hold of us to start the T10 program. You really just have to be willing to do the work and admit you
I found that I could chart my own way and not follow what I call the mini muffin path. And be successful personally.
don’t know what you’re doing. We’ll figure it out. We do that a lot here.
MBJ: In 1996, Bellevue University was mailing floppy disks to students for an online MBA. Most of higher education thought that was a fringe idea. What made you confident it would work?
Hawkins: Our students are working adults who really couldn’t take off when the professor said class is going to be 4 to 7. I’d struggled through that myself, trying to get off work and go to class and then find time to do comps and dissertation and all of that. Online learning took away time and place as barriers. It just seemed like a technology that was going to meet the needs of adults who were trying to balance life while going to school.
The early days were crazy. A lot of times we were answering questions about where the floppy disk goes. One student called and I said, push the button where the tray comes out that you can put the (CD-ROM) in — and they said, ‘I thought that was the cupholder.’ Our help desk was insane. I actually encouraged people to play games on their computers because there wasn’t the facility with the technology and I thought, just get them using it.
MBJ: Bellevue University is an open-admission school. You take students other institutions turn away. But you are also a private university that has to remain financially viable. How do you navigate that tension?
Hawkins: It actually hasn’t been an either-or question. The folks who haven’t been successful at other institutions, or who went through school at a time when they weren’t serious about it; what we have found is that they grow and thrive over time. Later, sometimes a few months and sometimes a decade or two, they realize that people around them are being promoted and they know they could do just as well. The degree is in the way. And their motivation is really what is driving them to succeed.
You have said you would want to have dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt because she was expected to pick out wallpaper and instead tackled social issues head-on. When have you had to do that?
When I got to the Air Force base, within a few days there was a knock on the door: the welcome wagon with a little package of mini muffins. And I always thought, I’m just not a mini muffin person. This is not going to be my path.
So I started an investment club. The wing commander’s wife thought it was interesting and good to engage people, so I had the freedom and flexibility to do things. And later, when my husband was commander of a squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base in Warrensburg, Missouri, lived here in Omaha and drove down on weekends to do the things I needed to do with them. I found that I could chart my own way and not follow what I call the mini muffin path. And be successful personally.
MBJ: What would you tell your younger self, struggling to find work in that small Air Force town?
Hawkins: Be patient. There’s going to be some opportunities to come. It was hard when you’re used to being really active and busy to think, oh, my career is over. I was just job to job and I thought that would be my life.
I called my mom at about 11 o’clock on the morning of Oct. 1, 1995 — my first day at Bellevue University — and said, this is not going to work. There’s not enough for me to do here. And she said, just calm down. You will start creating the work. I know you’re going to do this. You just take advantage of opportunities as they go. You have to be willing to take the risks.
MBJ: Your grandchildren are watching you lead a university. What do you hope they take from it?
Hawkins: I hope they learn that leaders can be their authentic selves. There’s not a model you have to follow. I’m the same person with them as I am here. I can be silly. I can be whatever. You can be your authentic self and lead. You don’t have to become someone else. I thought all leaders knew what they were doing and were formal and presented a certain way. I found out I don’t have to become someone else. I can lead from myself.
— MARY HAWKINS
QUICK HITS
IF YOU COULD SKI ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO?
I WOULD LOVE TO SKI IN THE ALPS. WATCHING THE OLYMPICS JUST RECENTLY WAS PHENOMENAL. YOU GO RESORT TO RESORT, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE FASCINATING.
LIKEWISE WITH SCUBA, WHERE IS YOUR DREAM PLACE TO GO?
I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO INDONESIA, AND I’D ALSO LIKE TO DO THE GREAT BARRIER REEF BECAUSE IT’S THE MOST WELL KNOWN. I DON’T KNOW IF IT WILL LIVE UP TO THE EXPECTATIONS, BUT I’D LIKE TO FIND OUT.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLANT IN THE COLLECTION RIGHT NOW?
I’VE BEEN HAVING GOOD LUCK WITH A FEW ORCHIDS. THERE’S ONE CALLED A BUTTERFLY ORCHID; I WOULD LIKE TO TRY ONE AND SEE IF I CAN KEEP IT ALIVE.
BOOK THAT CHANGED HOW YOU THINK ABOUT EDUCATION?
“EDUCATED” BY TARA WESTOVER. I AM TRULY STUNNED BY WHAT PEOPLE OVERCOME IN LIFE. I SEE THAT SAME SPIRIT IN OUR STUDENTS.
BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE RECEIVED?
“BE PATIENT. THINGS WILL COME.”
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DEBRA S. KAPLAN
A CLOSER look
Jamming with Joy
JEFF RUSSELL ON DAVE MATTHEWS, JEAN-LUC PICARD AND MILK
BY DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN
Jeff Russell wants people to imagine walking into a grocery store and seeing a gallon of milk priced at $107. That’s exactly what’s happened to healthcare costs in America since 1960, Russell explained during a recent interview at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska headquarters. If milk prices had grown at the same rate as medical costs over the past 65 years, that gallon would cost $107. Instead, it costs maybe $4.
“It’s the only industry I can think of where we have added technology and not reduced cost,” said Russell, 52, president and CEO of BCBSNE since June 2023.
Before arriving in Omaha, Russell spent a decade leading Delta Dental of Iowa and nearly 20 years in financial services. He’s a Drake University journalism graduate who has seen the Dave Matthews Band 23 times, thinks about business leadership through the lens of Star Trek’s Captain Picard and serves on nonprofit boards focused on children with special needs.
Midlands Business Journal recently sat down with Russell.
MBJ: In an op-ed, you wrote that if milk costs had grown like healthcare, we’d be paying $107 per gallon. What does the average person not understand about how health insurance actually works?
Russell: The biggest one was the point of the article: Collectively, we have a sick care system, not a healthcare system. When do you go see the doctor? Most often it’s when you’re not feeling well. We need to flip that. I come from the dental insurance world in my last job; you see your dentist more on an annual basis than you see your primary care doctor and you most often see your dentist for preventive reasons. That’s not been true in the medical world and we need to change that.
MBJ: You’re a Star Trek fan. What’s your favorite character, and how does that character’s approach show up in how you lead?
Russell: I’d have to say Captain Picard. One of the things he always did was get input from the entire team in a problem: “What is it that you think we should do?” And then he wasn’t afraid to make a different decision as well. It wasn’t about always getting consensus in the room. It was about gaining input and then making the decision that he thought was the right decision for the right reason, in the moment.
There was a book in the late ‘90s, early 2000s called “Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation.” I own it. I went to find it last night and couldn’t find it. Because it’s television, every decision works in the end, and that’s not real life. Every decision doesn’t work in the end. You make the decisions with the best information you have at the time. Some work and some don’t, and you live with that and then you move on.
MBJ: You’re a Dave Matthews Band fan. They’ve maintained the same core group for 30 years while constantly evolving. You walked into a company with a strong existing culture. Is there a principle from Dave Matthews that captures how you think about honoring what was already working while still changing what needs to change?
Russell: The interesting thing about the band is that it’s evolved multiple times over the years. They play 40 nights a year, 50 nights a year. They’ve done that for 30-some-odd years. I’ve always wondered: How do you get up every night to play a show when you’re going to play songs that you’ve played many, many times?
I think part of that’s about having a joy of playing together. It’s about the music for them. There’s a lesson to be learned there. If you’re really dialed into what it is you’re about, then there’s that.
As the players, as the bandmates have come and gone, there are differences in what they do now. With (violinist) Buddy Strong it’s different than with (violinist)
In a corporate culture, sometimes we can take the joy out of things. Sometimes we can take the fun out of things. As a leader, I have to remember that. I’m not great at it, but you have to remember: Why is it? What’s the joy about it?
Boyd Tinsley. They leaned into (songs) “Kashmir” and Zeppelin over a couple of years with Buddy, where it was really about (songs) “Louisiana Bayou” and “Lie in Our Graves” with Boyd. Their adaptability is what has drawn me to them, their willingness to be adaptable and to change and not to just get stuck in “this is the seven-song set that some bands play.”
You just have to realize that you’re going to adapt over time. If you’re going to be a band for any period of time, you’re not going to have the same players for 30 years. You’ve got to be able to recognize the strengths of who left and plug somebody in. (Saxophonist) LeRoi Moore couldn’t be replaced with one, so they replaced him with two: Rashawn Ross and Jeff Coffin. I think the sustaining point is that it all comes back to the music. It all comes back to what they’re about. The why.
MBJ: DMB is known for long jam sessions, but that doesn’t appeal to every music fan. As a leader, what’s your theory when you have a group that wants the fiveminute version of “All Along the Watchtower” but you need to get them enthusiastic about the 15-minute version?
Russell: My question is: Why does it vary night to night? My sense is that they’re just playing and they’re enjoying themselves and they’re kind of just along for the ride, and then all of a sudden they’re like, “Oh yeah, we should go finish the song now.”
I don’t mean lost like they forgot it. When they’re playing together, they just lose themselves in the moment. They’re so engaged in that.
One of my favorite stories: Des Moines, 2019. Boyd was still with the band, and we were in the pit, front row. Boyd was playing and Dave about tripped over him. He looks at me and goes “Huh!” At some point they were just playing on stage and they had almost forgotten that each other was there, but they were so engrossed in the music together.
In a corporate culture, sometimes we can take the joy out of things. Sometimes we can take the fun out of things. As a leader, I have to remember that. I’m not great at it, but you have to remember: Why is it? What’s the joy about it?
MBJ: You graduated from Drake with a journalism degree in 1994, then spent nearly 20 years in financial services before moving into insurance. Do you still think like a reporter?
Russell: I use the skills I learned in journalism school every day. As a newspaper editorial grad — which doesn’t exist anymore — you wake up in the morning and you get a story topic on something you probably know nothing about. You have to find sources. You have to ask good questions. You have to organize the information from most important to least important, and you have to communicate effectively.
I think there is an inherent skepticism that comes from a journalism background, and the one thing I’ve had to unlearn is to change my skepticism and turn it into curiosity.
MBJ: You served on the ChildServe board of directors, an organization supporting children with special healthcare needs. How has that work influenced your approach at BCBSNE?
Russell: I think the biggest thing I realized there is how little access there was to those kinds of services. We heard stories about people who would move to Des Moines so their children could be served by ChildServe, people who would drive incredible distances. If you look at special needs children in general, you’re not trying to manage costs there. You’re just trying to give them the best possible life. There are places in the healthcare system where I think we can legitimately manage costs and do better. And there are some cases where we just need to be focused on managing care.
QUICK HITS
— JEFF RUSSELL
WHAT WAS THE LAST ARTICLE YOU READ, LISTENED TO OR SAW ABOUT YOUR INDUSTRY THAT MADE YOU SAY “YES! SOMEONE GOT THIS RIGHT!”?
IT WASN’T AN ARTICLE, IT WAS A CONVERSATION I HAD WITH ANOTHER BLUE PEER WHO WAS LEANING INTO RURAL HEALTH. WHAT I THOUGHT THEY GOT RIGHT WAS: WHAT IF WE COULD DO THIS TOGETHER, NOT STATE BY STATE? HOW CAN WE DO THIS COLLECTIVELY SO WE DON’T HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL 50 TIMES?
THE UNDERGRADUATE CLASS AT DRAKE THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DEGREE THAT STUCK WITH YOU MOST?
EASY ANSWER: HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC. IT STARTED WITH ROBERT JOHNSON, WENT THROUGH THE ‘80S. IT’S WHERE I GOT EXPOSED TO BOB DYLAN’S “BLOOD ON THE TRACKS,” CLAPTON AND THE BEATLES. EASILY THE MOST IMPACTFUL CLASS THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY MAJOR.
FAVORITE CONCERT YOU’VE EVER ATTENDED, AND IS THERE ONE ON YOUR BUCKET LIST?
THAT DAVE MATTHEWS SHOW IN 2019. IT WAS THEIR BREAKOUT CONCERT OF THE YEAR. IT GETS PLAYED ON SIRIUS XM ALL THE TIME.
BUCKET LIST: DAVE MATTHEWS AT RED ROCKS OR AT THE SPHERE IN LAS VEGAS. I’VE SEEN DAVE 23 OR 24 TIMES.
BEST PROFESSIONAL ADVICE YOU’VE IGNORED?
I IGNORED FOR A LONG TIME THAT THERE IS A CEILING TO WHAT YOU CAN DO PERSONALLY. YOU’VE GOT TO WORK WITH AND THROUGH PEOPLE. YOU CAN’T JUST GRAB THE BALL AND RUN OVER THE GOAL LINE YOURSELF.
YOU’VE NOW BEEN IN OMAHA OVER TWO YEARS. WHAT’S ONE THING ABOUT THIS CITY YOU DIDN’T EXPECT TO APPRECIATE?
THE PHILANTHROPY IN THIS TOWN IS INCREDIBLE. IT IS ASTOUNDING TO ME HOW MUCH PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE WELL ARE WILLING TO GIVE BACK.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DEBRA S. KAPLAN
A CLOSER look
Art Meets Business
HOW A LIFE IMMERSED IN THE ARTS SHAPES OMAHA STEAKS’ CEO
BY DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN
Todd Simon and his family have supported Omaha’s cultural scene since the 1940s, when his father and uncle helped start the Omaha Symphony and Opera Omaha. Today, Simon, chair of Omaha Steaks, serves as president of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts board.
In August 2025, Simon was inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame alongside his late cousin Bruce Simon, recognizing their leadership of the fifthgeneration family business. But the ceremony at Holland Performing Arts Center highlighted something beyond business success: it celebrated a leader who sees no separation between supporting the arts and building a company.
That integration runs deep. Simon studied photography for four years at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alongside his business degree. He’s a trustee of United States Artists, supporting emerging artists nationwide. With his wife Betiana, he established the Omaha Steaks Visiting Artist Endowment at Interlochen Center for the Arts. In 2019, Americans for the Arts honored Omaha Steaks with a national Arts and Business Partnership Award, placing the company alongside Northwestern Mutual and Warby Parker for supporting over 170 arts organizations.
Today, as chairman and chief steak evangelist of Omaha Steaks, Simon continues exploring how a life steeped in the arts influences leading a 106-year-old company that ships premium food to millions of customers worldwide.
MBJ: Art collectors are temporary stewards; you don’t really own a Jun Kaneko piece, you’re just the current caretaker before it moves to the next owner or museum. Is that how you think about your role at Omaha Steaks, temporary stewardship rather than ownership?
Simon: Stewardship is about the business, it’s also about family, it’s also about community. For over 100 years, my family’s been part of this community, and we built a business, we supported the community and various causes that were important, both to our family and to our team. We built a brand that’s become nationally, if not internationally recognized, and we’ve been part of the memories that so many families have had when they’ve enjoyed Omaha Steaks and Omaha Steaks products around their dinner table or their cookouts or whatever.
MBJ: You’ve spent decades curating an art collection significant enough that you built a home around it. Curating requires making irreversible decisions with incomplete information; you can’t know if an emerging artist will matter in 20 years. How does that muscle memory of curatorial decision-making show up when you’re deciding whether to invest in a new product line or market?
Simon: I went to business school at the very beginning of an emerging field called management of entrepreneurship. One of the things the early professors studying entrepreneurship figured out is that one characteristic of entrepreneurs is the ability to operate with incomplete information.
If you talk about the art example, oftentimes the decisions I’ve made have been decisions about something that resonates with me. You go to museums, you go to galleries, you go to art fairs, and you start to spot things. You may not always be paying very close attention, but over time, things sort of emerge and you think, oh, you don’t think that’s the sixth time I’ve seen work by that artist, but your brain maybe registers that this has become more familiar.
MBJ: What’s one artwork you’ve seen that completely changed how you think about something in business?
Simon: There’s two things in art that are really interesting to me. One is photography, and one is minimalism.
The aspect of photography that I think is very interesting in business, and in my business in particular: first of all, our business is very visual. The products need to be beautifully displayed, shown and photographed. So learning what good photography is, or what I think good photography is, and being able to look
at the work we produced internally and saying, OK, that makes sense. It has the right sense of composition and color and balance to really communicate what it needs to communicate.
The other thing about photography is that it’s often telling a story in a very visceral way.
Photography almost always contains a narrative.
As far as minimalism goes, this business has always been very complex - a lot of moving pieces, vertically integrated company. What I like about minimalist art is it makes you think about how the simplest possible path can produce something compelling and emotional.
MBJ: You’re president of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts board. What’s one surprising thing you’ve learned about leading a nonprofit arts organization?
Simon: The biggest thing you have to learn when you lead a nonprofit arts organization, particularly when you come from a business background, is that the business of nonprofit can’t be evaluated on the exact same metrics. You have to have a mind shift, which is it’s not about financial return, it’s about social return. It’s about community return. And putting together the right metrics within an organization so that you can really understand what that social return looks like is a challenge, and it requires a mind shift from having a strong bottom line; it’s just a different type of bottom line than a corporate executive is typically used to looking at.
MBJ: What does successful social return at Bemis look like?
Simon: Successful social return at Bemis and at any nonprofit is fulfilling their mission. In the case of Bemis, it’s one of the few organizations in the region that’s engaged in the activity of cultural production.
Every year we bring 36 artists from around the world to live and work in Omaha. These artists are creating the things and the ideas that are going to be in future exhibitions, that will be in different institutions, that will be collected by collectors, that will influence other generations of artists. They’re creating that here in Omaha. They’re actually in the business of cultural production as opposed to cultural presentation, which is also super valuable, but it’s the stuff that gets produced that will later be presented. It’s a subtle but important distinction.
The short-term view of how I know Bemis is winning is because hundreds of people come through the galleries, they see amazing exhibitions, they go to incredible music performances. But when we see that the artists that are at Bemis go on to get important exhibitions at major institutions, we see that exhibitions we started at Bemis go on to move to other institutions around the country, when we see that artists who come to Bemis get prestigious fellowships like MacArthur genius grants or other kinds of things, those are additional indicators that Bemis is succeeding.
MBJ: In 2019, you received a national Arts and Business Partnership Award. A few years later, you brought in McCarthy Capital as an investment partner. How did you make the case to new financial partners that supporting arts organizations was not discretionary spending?
Simon: Over the last several years, even prior to McCarthy coming in, we had become more strategic and discerning about what the company’s community support would look like. With the guidance of our internal team, we decided to focus on three areas: food insecurity, veterans and first responders, and the arts.
The arts have a strong history within the Simon family, and there’s a lot of interest. My dad and my uncle helped start the symphony in Omaha and helped start the opera company in Omaha. I’ve been really involved with the Bemis Center and with the National Arts Organization, United States Artists.
MBJ: The 2021 T-shirt “Come Together, Right Now, Over Meat” came from your mother’s Beatles fandom. How much of Omaha Steaks’ brand identity is shaped by the Simon family’s personal cultural identity versus decisions made by professional marketers?
Simon: That’s a great example of how the family’s cultural background shows up in the business. My mother was a huge Beatles fan, and that influenced me growing up. When you have a family business, there’s always going to be some overlap between the family’s personal interests and the company’s identity. But we’ve also always had incredibly talented professional marketers who bring their own expertise and creativity to the brand.
MBJ: You’ve been in the home delivery food business for 106 years. During COVID, when everyone else was frantically figuring out how to ship groceries, what were you learning that you somehow didn’t already know?
Simon: One of the things I’ve always said about Omaha Steaks is that we’re really one of the original food tech companies. We’ve been delivering steaks and gourmet foods to customers since 1959, and even before when my grandfather was doing it more ad hoc, but we started to scale the business in 1959.
The challenge for us was not can we scale the business, because we knew we could; we do it every year with our holiday gift business. It was how could we scale the business very quickly also in the middle of all the other changes that were happening during COVID.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DEBRA S. KAPLAN
The business of nonprofit can’t be evaluated on the exact same metrics. You have to have a mind shift, which is it’s not about financial return, it’s about social return.
— TODD SIMON
QUICK HITS
WHAT MOVIE HAVE YOU SEEN AT EITHER OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL OR FILM STREAMS THAT YOU’RE STILL TALKING ABOUT?
I SAW A MOVIE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AT THE OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL ABOUT THE 1975 TORNADO IN OMAHA. I WAS 11 YEARS OLD IN 1975, AND I REMEMBER THAT TORNADO, SO IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO MATCH MY CHILDHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THAT WITH THE BROADER VIEW OF WHAT HAPPENED AND HOW IT HAPPENED.
YOU’VE MENTIONED THAT “STEAMROLLER BLUES” IS YOUR GO-TO KARAOKE SONG. WHAT’S ONE SONG YOU CANNOT STAND HEARING DONE AS KARAOKE? YMCA.
YOU STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY FOR FOUR YEARS AT WHARTON ALONGSIDE YOUR BUSINESS DEGREE. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND STUDY A DIFFERENT ART FORM FOR THOSE FOUR YEARS, WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
GUITAR. MUSIC AND GUITAR. I DON’T PLAY, AND I FEEL LIKE I’M TOO FAR GONE.
YOUR FAVORITE CONCERT WAS TALKING HEADS’ “STOP MAKING SENSE” TOUR IN 1983. WHEN WAS THE LAST CONCERT YOU ATTENDED, AND HOW DID IT COMPARE?
I SAW A PIANIST NAMED KELLY MORAN AT THE BEMIS LOW END. SHE’S A GRAMMY-NOMINATED PIANIST, AND IT WAS JUST INCREDIBLY INTIMATE AND BEAUTIFUL. I WAS SITTING LIKE FIVE FEET FROM THE KEYBOARD WATCHING HER PLAY, AND THE WAY SHE COMBINED HER BEAUTIFUL MELODIES WITH SOME ELECTRONICS AND SOME AMBIENT STUFF, IT WAS A REALLY LOVELY SHOW.
WHAT’S ONE OMAHA ARTISTS BESIDES JUN KANEKO THAT MORE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?
I’M NOT GOING TO GET PINNED DOWN ON ONE ARTIST BECAUSE OF WHERE I SIT IN THE ARTIST COMMUNITY, I SEE SO MANY INCREDIBLE ARTISTS. OMAHA HAS AN INCREDIBLY VIBRANT ARTS COMMUNITY FROM A MUSIC PERSPECTIVE, FROM A VISUAL ARTS PERSPECTIVE, FROM A PERFORMING ARTS PERSPECTIVE.
GOVERNMENT news
Nebraska Leads Nation
GOVERNOR, NTIA CELEBRATE FIRST BEAD-FUNDED CONNECTION
Lincoln, Nebraska — May 12, 2026 — Gov. Jim Pillen, alongside officials from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Nebraska Broadband Office and Vistabeam, celebrated the first Nebraska household connected to high-speed internet through the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. The milestone also marked one of the first reported BEAD-funded connections in the nation.
Through the BEAD program, Nebraska invested federal funding to connect unserved and underserved locations, strengthen economic growth, support precision agriculture, enhance public safety and ensure every Nebraskan has access to reliable, affordable broadband.
The first reported BEAD-funded household connection in the nation was completed outside Ogallala, Nebraska, Inventive, doing business as Vistabeam Internet, connected the household. In total, Vistabeam has been awarded $423,375 to serve 93 locations across the state.
The celebration took place Thursday, May 14, at 2 p.m. CDT (1 p.m. MDT) south of Ogallala, Neb. Governor Jim Pillen was joined by Arielle Roth, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, and Matt Larsen, CEO of Vistabeam.
Arch Wins Compass Award
NEBRASKA CHAMBER FOUNDATION DEBUTS HONOR WITH OMAHA FIRM
LINCOLN, Nebraska — May 11, 2026 — State Senator John Arch of Omaha was honored in April with the inaugural Compass Award from the Nebraska Chamber Foundation.
Noted as a “champion” who believes in Nebraska’s future, Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry Interim President Matt Williams presented Arch the award during a Nebraska Chamber Foundation Go Big Future series event at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
“Winning Nebraska’s next generation will require champions who believe in our state’s strong future, but more than that, champions who are willing to help define that future, defend it and deliver it,” Williams said. “Nebraska needs champions who can clearly articulate that future in a way that brings others along — across regions, across industries and across party lines. Champions who understand that progress doesn’t happen by accident, but through steady leadership and the willingness to engage in the hard work of leadership.
“This award recognizes Speaker Arch’s steady leadership and service to Nebraska. He has helped guide important conversations at a critical time for our state, and he has done so with a focus on stability, responsibility and long-term thinking.”
Arch was elected to the Legislature in 2018 and re-elected in 2022 to represent the 14th legislative district. In addition to twice being elected as Speaker of the Legislature, Arch has served as the chairman and vice-chairman of the Legislature’s Health and
Human Services Committee. He currently sits on the Legislature’s Executive Board, the Rules Committee, the Planning Committee, the Legislative Oversight Committee and is a member of the Capitol Commission. During his two terms, Arch has been a champion of legislative oversight, leading two investigative committees and creating the new Division of Legislative Oversight. As speaker, he emphasized balancing Nebraska’s budget and addressing budget deficits while advocating for tax relief and economic growth.
Prior to his election to the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature, Arch served in health care administration for over 30 years. In 1993 he became a hospital administrator at Boys Town National Research Hospital. He would spend 28 years at Boys Town in its health care division, with six of those years serving as Executive Vice President of Health Care and Director of the National Research Hospital and Clinics.
Arch sits on the board of Assure Women’s Center and is a member of Grace Life Bible Church, where he is a board member and teacher.
Nebraska Chamber Foundation President Tera Norris described the new award.
“The Compass Award represents leadership that points the way for Nebraska. In moments of uncertainty, a compass offers clarity and confidence — qualities reflected in this honor. It will be given to those who demonstrate unwavering principles, thoughtful direction, and a commitment to guiding Nebraska toward opportunity and growth,” Norris said. “Speaker Arch is a model for future awardees.”
NDOT seeks public
input AMENDMENT 6 TO STATE TRANSPORT PLAN OPEN UNTIL MAY 18
Lincoln, Nebraska — May 12, 2026 — The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) is accepting public comment regarding its proposed amendment to the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) – a mandatory, four-year plan of all federally funded transportation projects to be undertaken within the state.
Under federal law, NDOT is required to have a public involvement plan for the STIP in place. An amendment, referred to as Amendment 6 to the 2026-2029 STIP, is available for public comment on NDOT’s website at ndot.info/stip from Tuesday, May 12 to 5 p.m. (CT) Monday, May 18, 2026.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) require each state to develop a STIP, which must list all highway and transit projects that will use federal funds, as well as all regionally significant transportation
projects using non-federal funding sources. In Nebraska, the STIP is updated every year on Oct. 1. Periodically, NDOT must amend the STIP to add or remove projects, to make adjustments to funding sources or estimates, or to update a project’s scope of work.
The FHWA and the FTA will not approve the revision until the public comment period has ended and comments have been evaluated and incorporated in the revision, as appropriate. Copies of the Public Involvement Plan for NDOT’s STIP are available from one of the eight district offices. A map with district office locations and contact information is attached.
A copy of the proposed STIP Public Involvement Plan may be obtained upon request to the Communications and Public Policy Office, 1500 Nebraska Parkway, PO Box 94759, Lincoln, NE 68509-4759, or by calling 402-479-4316 or email jay.omar@nebraska.gov.
SARPY COUNTY news
Sarpy Looks Ahead FORUM SPEAKERS OUTLINE CAMPUS,
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Two anchor facilities are in advanced planning. A First Responders Education and Training Center is approximately 100,000 square feet on 20 acres and would address a regional gap Barry described as stretching 400 miles in any direction; Nebraska has no comparable facility, nor do neighboring Iowa, South Dakota or Missouri. More than 90% of the state’s firefighters are volunteers, and shortages across police, fire and EMS are deepening as older responders age out. MCC has partnered with Nebraska Philanthropic Trust to fund the center philanthropically, with a groundbreaking targeted for later this year.
An Advanced Diesel and Logistics Training Center — also approximately 100,000 square feet — is in pre-construction planning, designed to address workforce shortfalls in transportation, distribution and truck driving. The campus is expected to welcome its first students in 2029.
Barry described the build-out as purposefully long-term and mixed-use, shaped by partnerships rather than bond financing, and a point of institutional pride. “MCC has never had to take a bond out to do any of these capital buildings,” he said, “and we’re not going to start today.”
Arch’s Session Recap — and a Parting Challenge
Nebraska Legislature Speaker John Arch, term-limited out after this session, offered a session recap and a challenge to reframe the state’s economic conversation.
The 2025 session faced a $646 million budget shortfall, part of roughly $1 billion in deficits across two years. Lawmakers closed the gap through approximately $326 million in spending cuts and $286 million in transfers, including $152 million from the rainy day fund, which still holds $550 million.
LB 1165 is a business incentive bill partly inspired by Union Pacific’s proposed merger, which could bring as many as 11,000 full-time jobs to the Omaha area, and enables companies with more than 3,000 full-time workers that add 1,000 new full-time jobs averaging at least $90,000 annually to receive a 10% tax credit over a seven-year period.
Arch closed with a charge to business leaders: don’t wait for the legislature to drive
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economic growth. “The worst thing that can happen is for businesses to sit back and say the legislature needs to come up with that solution,” he said. “I can guarantee you the legislature will not come up with that solution.”
Good Life Districts: Two Models, One Mechanism
Gretna City Administrator Paula Dennison and Harrison Johnson, Bellevue’s director of Community and Economic Development, presented updates on their Good Life Districts, a state program that redirects 2.75% of Nebraska’s 5.5% sales tax back to qualifying development zones for up to 30 years.
Gretna’s district — the largest in the state at 2,000 acres — is approaching its three-year milestone. The Texas-based travel center chain Buc-ee’s is expected to close on its Gretna property in fall 2025 and open in 2028 with 108 fuel pumps and approximately 200 full-time employees, satisfying nearly all of the district’s Year 3 investment obligations on its own.
Bellevue’s city-led district is anchored by an indoor water park projected to be the fourth largest in the country upon completion in mid-to-late 2027. Johnson cited a study by Ernest Goss, Ph.D., the Jack MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics at Creighton University, finding the state receives between $1.41 and $1.61 for every dollar it invests through the program.
Goss: Cautious on the National Picture
Goss delivered a frank read on national economic risks: a $2 trillion federal deficit, an overvalued stock market and tariffs he called harmful to Nebraska agriculture.
“These tariffs have been bad for Nebraska,” he said, pointing to Chinese retaliation against soybean exports.
For Nebraska specifically, Goss called for shifting the tax base from property and income taxes toward sales taxes, scrutinizing local government and school spending, and requiring nonprofits to pay sales taxes on non-mission-related activities. On the federal debt, he invoked economist Herb Stein: “If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
HIGHLIGHT of the week
Record-Setting Event
DJ’S HERO AWARDS SETS RECORD FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, FUNDRAISING
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high school seniors and raised an all-time-high total of $708,000 in donations.
More than 1,100 people assembled to salute the heroes and hear a keynote speech from decorated Iraq War veteran Shilo Harris. VIPs in attendance included Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr. and Commissioner Merle Heatwole, Washington, D.C.-based national commander of The Salvation Army.
KETV anchors Julie Cornell and Bill Schammert were emcees for the event, spearheaded by luncheon co-chairs Rodrigo and Mary Lopez, Ana Lopez Shalla and Stephen Osberg.
Harris delivered a moving keynote speech as the U.S. Army veteran recounted the 2007 IED attack on his armored vehicle near Baghdad. The attack claimed the lives of three of his friends and left him so severely wounded he has undergone more than 80 surgeries during his recovery process. Now a world-traveling motivational speaker, Harris drew from his own story in his message about turning life’s tragedies into opportunities.
The event-record 19 scholarship winners, hailing from small towns and cities across Nebraska, were a group of high-achieving young women and men overcoming tremendous obstacles. Their life stories ranged from debilitating illnesses to the incarceration of parents to the tragic deaths of loved ones that posed substantial hurdles to be overcome en route to academic success.
Each recipient received spirited applause from the audience as they were introduced by the emcees and walked across the ballroom stage to receive a plaque memorializing their scholarship.
The DJ’s Hero Awards Luncheon has long been The Salvation Army of Omaha’s largest one-day fundraiser of the year. This year’s event inspired donors well beyond the conclusion of the luncheon. During the last two days of April, multiple major gifts were received, pushing the total amount raised past $700,000 and establishing the new record.
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Feelin’ Groovy
JEREMY VOKT, PARTNER, BLAND & ASSOCIATES
JEREMY VOKT KEEPS BLAND & ASSOCIATES MARCHING TO DIFFERENT BEAT
Like a lot of things that work behind the scenes, accounting firms don’t usually fall into the fun-and-sexy category of a business advisory team like, say, the corporate cool kids in marketing and sales.
In fact, to most people’s thinking, Bland & Associates is perfectly named for the kind of work that the company does: steadfast, accurate and reliable, yes; dance-on-the-table flashy, no.
The thing is, Bland is nothing like the name over the door and that’s directly attributable to Jeremy Vokt, who joined the firm in 2006 and recently stepped back from managing partner to partner. Vokt believes the quality of a company’s character is every bit as important as its work and there’s nothing disqualifying about the firm showing its collective personality.
“We think very highly of our culture,” he said. “We want to be a family, a friendly place. I believe we have achieved that but we do not take it for granted. We are constantly cultivating our culture.”
One look at the company’s media campaign celebrating its 50th anniversary tells one a lot about the different beat to which Bland has been marching. Warm, humorous, approachable and portrayed in its 1970s disco ball glory,
the campaign is far from the CPA stereotype while revealing a lot about how differently leadership thinks, starting with Vokt.
“I started at Bland out of college but left and went to a couple other firms before coming back in the fall of 2006,” he said. “Where I was at beforehand, there were probably five or six people in front of me to become an owner. I really wanted to be an owner of a firm at that point in time and I decided to go back to Bland with a couple of friends, Jason Tonjes and Troy McKinney, on taking it over from Jerry Bland, the namesake.
“I’d learned a lot at the two firms I was at and had a lot of mentors at both those firms. Learning from those people, those firms allowed me an opportunity to do some things on a smaller scale that I wanted to build up on my own with Troy and Jason.”
Over 20 years, Bland grew from 17 people to about 120 today. Each hire has strengthened the company in delivering its slate of services: audit and assurance, government consulting, business valuation and tax foremost among them. Vokt said keeping up with automation and new technology has also been a priority, as evidenced by its data analytics and process evaluation offerings.
It’s an exciting time to be in the industry as it’s evolving.
“It’s an exciting time to be in the industry as it’s evolving,” he said. Vokt’s path to the firm that would define his career started early, making up his mind in high school to be a CPA.
“I always enjoyed math and numbers as a young boy,” he said. “As a kid, I would add up everything; I would add the nutrition facts on the cereal box like other kids searched for the prize or completed the puzzles.
“As I got into high school I was introduced to business classes and accounting and knew that’s the direction I wanted to go. I wanted to someday own my own business and control my own professional future.”
From the helm, Vokt helped expand the company not only by headcount but by market share. Today the firm serves a wide range of clients in the construction, nonprofit, healthcare, real estate, retail and manufacturing sectors, to name just a few. Vokt said such diversity of clientele has held lasting appeal for him.
“The best thing I like about my profession is I get to work alongside businesses of all sizes and industries,” he said. “It’s such a diverse profession working at a public accounting firm. You work with entrepreneurs, visionaries, families and staff of locally owned companies and organizations. You get to grow with them as they grow their business.”
With the company’s success came acquisitional suitors, that led Vokt and other members of leadership to ruminate on the company’s long-term future. The result was a step that solidified the firm’s reputation for cultural insights that ran upstream of all other firms.
“The CPA industry has been consolidating at an extremely fast pace the last five years due to the introduction of private equity into the space,” he said.
“We chose a different path prior to private equity entering our profession. We set up our firm as an employee stock ownership plan in January 2020, becoming Nebraska’s first-ever 100% employee-owned CPA firm.
“I did a bunch of research on ESOPs and that eventually led me down the path of asking the state board of accountancy, ‘Hey, what do you think about this structure?’ They’re like, ‘We don’t even know what you’re talking about, Jeremy, we don’t have that here.’”
The move put Bland in a select category and Vokt in high demand nationally from other firms and industry groups wanting to learn the benefits of ESOP.
“CPA firms don’t know how to really pass on ownership very well, let alone to get it where all the employees that have that ownership mindset, so there were very few CPA firms in the U.S. set up this way,” he said. “I have been asked to speak at multiple national conferences to educate other firms about our ESOP structure. We see ourselves as an industry leader in this regard.”
BY DWAIN HEBDA | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA SEMPEK
— JEREMY VOKT
FUN FACTS:
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION IN ACCOUNTING?
THE MORE COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EMBRACE AI THE MORE VALUABLE IT WILL BE TO LANDING THEIR FIRST JOB AND MAKE THEM VALUABLE TO THE FIRM OR COMPANY THEY JOIN. AT FIRST THERE WAS TALK ABOUT AI REPLACING YOUR ACCOUNTANT, AND THERE IS SOME TRUTH TO THAT, BUT WHERE IT’S REALLY GOING IS ACCOUNTANTS USING AI WILL REPLACE ACCOUNTANTS NOT USING AI.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED IN LIFE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN USEFUL TO KNOW AT AGE 16?
SURRENDER TO JESUS, AS A TEENAGER, NOT AS AN ADULT.
WHAT IS YOUR BUCKET LIST VACATION OR TRIP?
I LOVE TO GOLF, SO PROBABLY GOING BACK TO AUGUSTA, THE MASTERS.
IF YOU HADN’T GONE INTO YOUR FIELD, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE PROFESSIONALLY?
I ALWAYS DREAMT OF BEING A PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYER, EVEN THOUGH I WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH.
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL RESTAURANT AND WHAT IS YOUR GO-TO ORDER?
MY FAVORITE PLACE IS PROBABLY CHAMPIONS HERE IN TOWN. I GET THE SNAKE RIVER BURGER.
YOU COACH SOCCER AT ELKHORN NORTH HIGH SCHOOL; WHAT OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS, CHARITIES OR INITIATIVES ARE YOU INVOLVED WITH?
AS I’VE STARTED TO CREATE MORE MARGIN IN MY LIFE AS I ENTER THIS NEW SEASON WITH MY FAMILY, I HAVE SLOWLY PHASED OUT MANY OF MY BOARD ROLES. HOWEVER, I WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT BLAND CARES FOUNDATION, ANGELS AMONG US AND OTHER LOCAL CHARITIES THAT ARE NEAR TO MY HEART.
WRITTEN
BY THE HFS INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
AI’s Capital Cycle Is Just Getting Started
Weekly Market Commentary
The latest quarterly earnings reports from the technology giants reinforce a trend increasingly visible across the broader economy: growth is accelerating, driven by extraordinary demand for AI and the infrastructure required to support it. What began as a technology-spending super cycle has evolved into a full-scale buildout of data centers, power, networking and semiconductor capacity.
Importantly, companies are now starting to see returns on these investments through materially faster revenue growth and increased profitability. This bodes well for sustained investment. Several CEOs have suggested that already massive capital expenditure budgets will rise further in 2027, a sign this cycle is still gaining momentum and remains a meaningful tailwind for the broader bull market.
Alphabet’s first quarter revenues grew 22% year-over-year to nearly $110 billion, while Google Cloud revenue growth surged 63% versus a 28% growth rate a year ago. This acceleration highlights AI’s insatiable need for more computing power and hence the massive spend to build additional capacity. Google raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast again to roughly $190 billion and expects another meaningful increase in 2027.
Amazon delivered a similar message. AWS quarterly revenue growth accelerated to 28%, its fastest pace in nearly four years, driven by demand for AI compute. CEO
Andy Jassy said Amazon is “monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it,” while emphasizing that “the lion’s share of that demand is still yet to come.” The company maintained its plans for approximately $200 billion in capital expenditures this year, but commentary around power expansion and chip demand strongly suggests spending could move even higher into 2027.
Microsoft and Meta echoed the same theme. Microsoft’s Azure growth continued accelerating toward 40% as enterprise AI adoption broadened while Meta posted 33% revenue growth alongside a 41% operating margin. Combined 2026 capital expenditure expectations for Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta now exceed $700 billion, an approximately $50 billion increase vs January, and management’s commentary increasingly points toward even larger budgets in 2027.
That spending does not stay confined within Silicon Valley. It flows into semiconductors, utilities, construction, manufacturing, engineering and energy infrastructure. AI is fueling a broad-based economic expansion cycle and the market is beginning to reflect this reality.
Unless otherwise cited, the statements and commentary provided are opinions of Harrison Financial Services as of May 6, 2026, and are subject to change. There is no guarantee that any forecasts made will come to pass. This material does not constitute investment advice and is not intended as an endorsement of any specific investment or security. Any views on the relative attractiveness of a particular asset class or sector are made in the context of a well-diversified portfolio, not in isolation. Please remember that all investments carry some level of risk, including the potential loss of principal invested.
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MIDLANDS LEADERS q&a
Midlands Leaders is a weekly section showcasing individuals who are making an impact in the community through their professional and volunteer endeavors. To nominate someone for this piece, email news@mbj.com with the individual’s name, position, company and email.
KAY DOYLE, OUI COACHING & CONSULTING KAY
Bio:
Kay Doyle is the principal coach and consultant at Oui Coaching & Consulting, which she founded in 2022, a role to which she brings more than 30 years of cross-sector experience in finance, marketing, communications, strategy and change management. Doyle partners with mission-driven leaders and organizations to clarify direction, strengthen alignment and design human-centered coaching, facilitation and organizational development strategies that elevate performance and impact. Her work spans strategic planning, culture shaping, leadership coaching and the design of reflective, participatory learning experiences that deepen insight and drive action.
She has a Master of Science in learning and organizational change and an organizational/leadership coaching certification from Northwestern University, along with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration/finance from Seattle University. Last month, she was named the 2026 Community Impact Volunteer of the Year by United Way of the Midlands.
Where did your desire to volunteer come from?
My desire to volunteer comes from a place of gratitude. I’ve been blessed and my needs are few, while so many people in our community face challenges that are impossible to carry alone. I believe we’re connected to one another, and when we are able, we’re called to serve our neighbors in need.
How long have you volunteered through United Way of the Midlands and in what capacity?
I have volunteered through United Way of the Midlands for 13 years with the Community Investment Review Team. The CIRT is responsible for reviewing grant applications each funding cycle and making investment recommendations to the UWM board and staff based on the strength of the program, alignment with United Way of the Midlands’ investment priorities and need/impact in the community.
What other groups do you volunteer for, in addition to United Way?
I am finishing up my term as chair of the board of trustees for Duchesne Academy and am a new member of the Early Futures Partnership board.
For other individuals who are interested in volunteering but are still on the fence about it, what would you tell them? How would you advise them on how to get started?
I’d encourage anyone to try volunteering because there’s real joy in giving your time and helping others. I would suggest finding ways to volunteer that match your particular talents or skills and interests. When you do this, it isn’t particularly challenging and allows you to contribute in a way that is meaningful to you.
What led you to your chosen field?
My path into my work today grew from the parts of my corporate career that energized me most: helping people find clarity, align around what matters and move toward meaningful results. Now I bring that people-centered, strategy-driven approach to mission-driven leaders and organizations working to strengthen their communities.
Across
1. Sound made by a sheep
4. Colored part of the eye
8. One time only
12. Hospital critical care units, abbr.
14. Sleeveless garment
15. Dull pains
16. Spiritual teacher
17. Egg-shaped
18. Valleys
19. Venomous fish in the Henry Doorly Aquarium
21. ___ Diego
22. Cream-filled pastry
23. A key battle was fought on this beach in WW II
26. Prominent Omaha figure who was known for posting the Sunday Polka Show for 16 years and co-owned
KOTD AM/FM radio stations, ____ Warga
28. Below
29. History
32. Grain storage towers
34. Each, in pricing, 2 words
36. Leathernecks, initially
37. Law & Order spinoff, for short
38. Black sticky substance
39. Person from Bangkok
41. Tiny amounts
43. Top golfer McIlroy
44. Bert’s Muppet pal
46. Hindu religious teacher
48. Personnel
49. Single-celled organisms
52. Explosive letters
53. Omaha fountain
55. Cornwall city in the southwest of England
58. Acorn-bearing trees
59. Part of N.Y.C.
60. Coup ___, 2 words
61. Region
62. Andy Warhol’s model, ____ Sedgwick
63. Stair unit
64. Fishing poles
65. Emergency medical group, abbr.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
I enjoy walking alongside leaders as they learn to create positive change in themselves, their teams and their organizations. That shared journey — supporting their growth, clarity and confidence — is the most meaningful part of my work.
Your thoughts on being recognized as United Way of the Midlands’ Community Impact Volunteer of the Year?
I am truly honored by this recognition, and I hope to encourage others to volunteer. Volunteering will give you greater appreciation for what you have and reminds you how much more alike we are than different. In a time marked with conflict and division, coming together to support one another matters more than ever.
Down
1. Major leagues, with “the”
2. Sharp
3. Relating to gold
4. Piano keys, slangily
5. Apply wood finish again
6. British exclamation, 2 words
7. Missouri city, on scoreboards
8. National anthem north of the border, 2 words
9. Hockey league letters
10. Middle mark
11. Curvy letter
13. Bright with natural light
15. “I don’t give ___ ___ “ Rhett’s last words
20. Long-snouted fish
21. ___ chef
24. Aware of, in slang- 2 words
25. Deafening
27. “The King” of rock
29. Place
30. Fireplace residue
31. Intelligent
33. Lasted longer on a jaunt
35. Snoop
40. Caught, 3 words
41. Crosswise yarn in weaving
42. Triangular Indian pastries
43. Omaha steaks offering
45. Otherwise, 2 words
47. Sea, in France
50. Positive electrode
51. Theatrical gauze curtain
53. Portuguese seaport
54. Barely manages, with “out”
55. Football scores, for short
56. No longer working, abbr.
57. Salt Lake city athlete perhaps
58. Rowing implement
Crossword by Myles Mellor
UPCOMING events
May 19
Public hearing on proposed 2026 Annual Action Plan
Location: Nebraska Department of Economic Development, 245 Fallbrook Blvd. in Lincoln
The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are soliciting public comments on the proposed 2026 Annual Action Plan describing how DED and DHHS will use annual federal funding pertaining to Community Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnerships, National Housing Trust Fund, Emergency Solutions Grant, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, and Homeless Shelter Assistance Trust Fund programs.
— opportunity.nebraska.gov
May 19
Understanding Capital Options and Debunking Myths
Location: Virtual
This Entrepreneur’s Education Collaborative event explains how different funding sources work, what lenders and investors truly look for, and how to prepare a business to be capital-ready.
Location: Mutual First Credit Union, 14510 F St., Suite 101
A team of U.S. Department of State consular specialists will be on hand to help attendees complete and submit new passport applications or renewals. Appointments are required.
— jotform.com/build/261205947101045
May 19
Introduction to Government Contracting
Location: Bellevue University, 812 Bruin Blvd. in Bellevue
Crossword by Myles Mellor – Answers
Presented by Harold Sargus and Nebraska APEX Accelerator, this introductory session covers the basics of how to do business with local, state and federal governments from pros and cons to registrations and certifications to common myths. — bellevuenebraska.com
May 19
REACH Advanced QuickBooks for Small Businesses
Location: Greater Omaha Chamber, 808 Conagra Dr.
The Nebraska Enterprise Fund and the Greater Omaha Chamber REACH Program is providing hands-on QuickBooks training designed to help small and emerging businesses strengthen financial management, streamline operations and become more contract-ready.
— omahachamber.org
May 20
Tech, Talent & Transformation
Location: Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine St.
Driven by the Nebraska Tech Collaborative and the NE Chamber Foundation, Tech, Talent & Transformation presents Nebraska as a growing force in the global technology economy through dynamic presentations, immersive exhibits and networking opportunities. — sourcelinknebraska.com/event/tech-talent-transformation
May 26
BIPOC Roundtable
Location: Virtual Association of the Midlands’ BIPOC Roundtable is designed to create and nurture spaces where BIPOC professionals and allies in the nonprofit sector across the Midlands can thrive, collaborate and lead. — nonprofitam.org
May 27-29
ROI of Why Conference
Location: Creighton University Heider College of Business, 602 N. 20th St. This event focuses on what business can be when it’s aligned with purpose, people and impact. Entrepreneur and tech visionary Brett Hurt, founder of Bazaarvoice and data.world, is keynote. — domoregood.com
May 28
The HIVE
Location: All Makes Office Equipment, 200 S. 21st St. in Lincoln
Hosted every other month by various small businesses, the HIVE is a free small business coffee meetup for Lincoln Chamber members.
— lcoc.com
May 28-29
E-waste collection drive
Location: 11510 Blondo St.
Businesses and residents can drop off old computers, phones, tablets, printers and more at no cost, reducing both toxic waste in landfills and data theft from improperly discarded devices. This event is co-hosted by Goodwill Omaha and Ascend Technology Group.
— ascendtg.com
June 1-3
International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare
Location: Nebraska East Union, 1705 Arbor Dr. in Lincoln
A cooperating team of U.S. and Canadian animal scientists and veterinarians host this biennial event in rotation with partner institutions in both countries. This year’s symposium includes talks, roundtables and panels discussing practical tools, research findings and the trajectory of beef cattle welfare management.
— beefcattlewelfare.org
IN THE spotlight
PAID ANNOUNCEMENTS
BRIDGET ELZEYJOHN HEMMER
KELLY VAUGHN
Visiting Nurse Association/Easterseals Nebraska Announces New Board Members,Welcomes
SeniorVice President of Health Services
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)/Easterseals Nebraska (ESN), known for ensuring exceptional care and services are available to all in the community, is proud to announce the election of two new board members:
Kelly Vaughn — Chief Nursing Officer, Nebraska Medicine
John Hemmer — Audit Partner, Forvis Mazars, LLP
The full VNA/ESN board includes:
Micah Beachy, Nebraska Medicine/UNMC; Jessie Fechner, Methodist Women’s Hospital; Craig Flanagan, WesleyLife; Bill Foley, Erickson Sederstrom P.C., L.L.O.; Katie Fourney, SHARE Omaha; John Hoich, Charles E Lakin Foundation, Inc./Hoich Enterprises, Inc.; Jenny Jacobsen, HUB International; Ralph Kellogg, Lutheran Family Services; Roger Kobayashi, UCLA School of Medicine; Hilke Meyer, NAI NP Dodge; Eric Norman, The Medicus Firm; Carole Patrick, VNA/ESN; Jeanne Rice, Methodist Hospital; Rebecca Tamayo, Home Care Advantage, LLP; and Sean Winekauf, Mutual of Omaha.
VNA is also pleased to welcome Bridget Elzey as senior vice president of health services, who will oversee VNA’s School Health, Shelter Nursing, Parenting Support, Home Health Aide, and Flu and Immunization services. Elzey brings 30 years of devoted nursing experience to the role, with a clinical background spanning acute medical-surgical nursing, behavioral health, homecare and specialized care environments.
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LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
CORRECTED NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF HIGH PLAINS TRAILER RENTAL LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is HIGH PLAINS TRAILER RENTAL LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 6 Ash St. #258, PO Box 258, Greenwood, NE 68366. The name and address of the registered agent is Colton Wrich, 6 Ash St. #258, Greenwood, NE 68366. The mailing address of the registered agent is 6 Ash St. #258, PO Box 258, Greenwood, NE 68366. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on March 18, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc.
First publication May 15, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Hannah C. Junk, Attorney
10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE68114
CORRECTED NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF COONEY TRANSPORTATION CO.
CORRECTED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a corporation has now been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the corporation is Cooney Transportation Co. The Corporation commenced existence on March 17, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. Cooney Transportation Co. is a for-profit corporation created with the purpose of conducting any lawful business. The company is authorized to issue One Thousand (1,000) shares of common stock of One Cent ($.01) par value per share. The name and address of the incorporator and registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. LDM Business Services, Inc.
First publication May 15, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Hannah C. Junk, Attorney
10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
CORRECTED NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF COONEY CONSTRUCTION CO.
CORRECTED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a corporation has now been formed under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the corporation is Cooney Construction Co. The Corporation commenced existence on March 17, 2026, and shall
have perpetual duration. Cooney Construction Co. is a for profit corporation created with the purpose of conducting any lawful business. The company is authorized to issue One Thousand (1,000) shares of common stock of One Cent ($.01) par value per share. The name and address of the incorporator and registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. LDM Business Services, Inc. First publication May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LOTS A TOTS LLC
Lots A Tots LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska to conduct lawful business activities including mobile food vendor services. First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF MEETING
SANITARY AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 29 SARPY COUNTY, NEBRASKA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Sanitary and Improvement District No. 29 of Sarpy County, Nebraska, will be held on May 18, 2026, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Betts Real Estate, 11773 S. Hwy 6, Suite 10, Gretna, Nebraska, which meeting will be open to the public and includes the payment of bills of the District. An Agenda for such meeting, kept continuously current, is available for public inspection at Betts Real Estate, 11773 S. Highway 6, Suite 10, Gretna, Nebraska during normal business hours.
Kathy Betts
Clerk of the District
First publication May 15, 2026
CROKER HUCK LAW FIRM
2120 South 72nd St., Ste 1200 Omaha, NE 68124
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
The following-described property will be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder for cash at the H-14 Conference Room on the Harney Level of the Omaha-Douglas Civic Center, 1819 Farnam Street, in the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska on June 30, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.:
Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, Benson Gardens Replat 22, as surveyed, platted, and recorded in the city of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. Commonly known as: 2306 N. 79th Street, Omaha, Nebraska subject to any and all: (1) real estate taxes; (2) special assessments; (3) easements, covenants, restrictions, ordinances, and resolutions of record which may affect the property; (4) unpaid utility charges; (5) prior mortgages and trust deeds of record, if any; and (6) ground leases of record.
This sale is being held pursuant to the power of sale granted in a certain Deed of Trust executed by Trustor on or about August 16, 2024, and recorded on August 20, 2024 at Inst. No. 2024058212 in favor of Robert Nawojski, Beneficiary, in the Records of the Register of Deeds of Douglas County, Nebraska. The highest bidder is required to deposit a minimum of $10,000.00 in cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and to deliver the remaining balance in cash or certified funds or by wire transfer to the undersigned by 5:00 p.m. on the day of the sale (except this requirement is waived when the highest bidder is the Beneficiary), or to make other arrangements acceptable to the Trustee. The Beneficiary specifically reserves the right to credit bid. The purchaser is responsible for all fees and taxes, including the documentary stamp tax. This sale is made on an “as is, where is” basis without warranties as to the title or condition of the property. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Any personal property which may be located at the property is not included with the sale and may be removed following the sale by Beneficiary.
By: David J. Skalka, Trustee, #21537 Lindsey A. Schuler, #25305
CROKER HUCK LAW FIRM
2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, Nebraska 68124. (402) 391-6777. Attorneys for Trustee, 01356683.DOC
First publication May 15, 2026, final June 12, 2026
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF MIMRAN EVENT MGMT, INC.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mimran Event Mgmt, Inc., a Nebraska nonprofit corporation (the “Corporation”), has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 27, 2026, and the Corporation has voluntarily dissolved. The terms and conditions of such dissolution are, in general, that all debts and obligations of the Corporation have been fully paid and satisfied and any remaining assets will be distributed in accordance with the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation. Alan Kohll, as President, will wind up the Corporation’s business and affairs. The Corporation has no assets or liabilities as of the date hereof.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
ERICKSON | SEDERSTROM, P.C.
10330 Regency Parkway Drive
Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF RAINBOW PEDIATRICS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rainbow Pediatrics, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), filed a Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 23, 2026. The terms of the dissolution provide for the payment of liabilities of the Company and distribution of any remaining assets. The Company requests that persons with claims against it present them in accordance with this notice. Any claimant shall describe the claim and the date on which the claim arose and mail the claim to the above address. A claim against the company will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after the publication of this notice.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Daniel J. Waters, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF KT TREES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is KT TREES LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 16526 Redwood Street, Omaha, NE 68136. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on May 6, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 4931-3106-3977, v. 1
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF MAPLE ROCK HOLDINGS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Maple Rock Holdings, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 2712 East 12th Street, Fremont, Nebraska 68025. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Law Offices
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114
Telephone 402-392-1250
Facsimile 402-392-0816
NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION
An Amended Certificate of Organization of MadJac Realty & Property Management, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), was filed on May 6, 2026, for the purpose of amending the Certificate of Organization of the Company to provide for a change in the name of the Company to MadJac, LLC.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LEG UP ENTERPRISES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Leg Up Enterprises, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 9874 Devonshire Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF JRQ PROPERTIES, LLC BY GIVEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JRQ Properties, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 12108 Iva Street, Gretna, NE 68028.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF WAR ROOM TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that War Room Technologies, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 9802 Nicholas Street, Suite 105, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GKLN PROPERTIES, LLC
GKLN PROPERTIES, LLC, with its designated office located at 16025 Bedford Ave, Omaha, NE 68116, gives notice that it filed a Certificate of Organization with the Secretary of State on August 7, 2025. The registered agent is Shaun M. James and the Registered Office is 3555 Farnam Street, Suite 1000, Omaha, NE 68131. The company may engage in any lawful business or commercial activity for which a limited liability company may be organized. Ryan Esch, Organizer
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO
1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF VMH HOLDINGS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that VMH HOLDINGS, LLC was formed in Nebraska with the following registered agent and office: McGrath North Mullin & Kratz, PC LLO, c/o Thomas M. Worthington, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102. The designated office address is c/o Thomas M. Worthington, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF FORZENA CAPITAL LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Forzena Capital LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 1402 Jones Street, Suite 29, Omaha, Nebraska 68102. The Registered Agent and Office of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF TDF, L.L.C.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of TDF, L.L.C., a Nebraska limited liability company (“Company”), has been amended to delete Article 16, Section 1(a) regarding the timeframe for dissolution of the Company.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
PANSING HOGAN ERNST & BUSER LLP
BENJAMIN J. PICK, Attorney 10250 Regency Circle, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114-3728
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO THE CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF PQ PHASE 5 HOLDINGS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, the Certificate of Organization of PQ PHASE 5 HOLDINGS, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (the “Company”), has been amended to change the name of the Company to PRAIRIE QUEEN 3, LLC. The Amended Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska on April 29, 2026. In all other respects, the Certificate of Organization remains unchanged. First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SEAMLESS RENTALS LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Seamless Rentals LLC has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the designated office of the limited liability company is 16403 Miami St, Omaha, NE 68116. The name and address of the initial agent for service of process of the limited liability company is Colton Bakhit-Placke, 16403 Miami St, Omaha, NE 68116.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF YUTAN HOLDINGS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that YUTAN HOLDINGS, LLC (the Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 7878 Main Street, Suite 2G, Lavista, NE 68128. The Registered Agent of the company is CT Corporation System, 5601 S 59th Street, Suite C, Lincoln, NE 68516. First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
CROKER HUCK LAW FIRM
SCOTT D. JOCHIM, Attorney
2120 S. 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, NE 68124
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SOJAXLEE, LLC
The name of the limited liability company is Sojaxlee, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 17486 Orchard Avenue, Omaha, NE 68135. The name and address of the initial agent for service of process is Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Anderson & Gonderinger, LLC, 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124. First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
SMITH PAULEY LLP
Jeffrey T. Palzer
3555 Farnam St., Ste. 1000 Omaha NE 68131
NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF EL MILAGRO MEXICAN RESTAURANT, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that El Milagro Mexican Restaurant, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has filed an Amended Certificate of Organization with the Nebraska Secretary of State. The amendment changes the name of the limited liability company to Javi’s Cantina Mexican Kitchen, LLC. All other provisions of the original Certificate of Organization remain unchanged.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Law Offices
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114
Telephone 402-392-1250
Facsimile 402-392-0816
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LAIMORE LLC
Laimore LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The street and mailing addresses of the initial designated office of the company are 10652 Woolworth Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The name and street and mailing addresses of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Robert M. Schartz, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
ERICKSON | SEDERSTROM, P.C.
10330 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HOUSING AT NORTH ACRES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Housing at North Acres, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska with its designated office located at 3211 North 90th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134 and designating its registered agent as Rhonda A. Hodge-Mason with its registered office at 3211 North 90th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134. First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Daniel J. Waters, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF FROEHLICH INVESTMENTS V, L.L.C
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Froehlich Investments V, L.L.C. The address of the initial designated office is 8629 S. 99 th Circle, La Vista, NE 68128. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on May 4, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 4919-7986-8832, v. 1
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Erin K. Artz Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF SET THE TONE PARTY RENTALS AND SERVICES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Set the Tone Party Rentals and Services, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 2586 Manderson, Omaha, NE 68111. The name and address of the registered agent is Alex Douglas-Mayo, Sr., 2586 Manderson, Omaha, NE 68111. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on May 1, 2026 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. Organizer
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Law Offices
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114-3450
Telephone 402-392-1250
Facsimile 402-392-0816
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
Implemental has been incorporated under the Nebraska Nonprofit Corporation Act. The corporation is a public benefit corporation. The street address of the corporation’s initial registered office is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska, 68114; and the name of the initial registered agent of the corporation at that office is Thomas J. Malicki. The corporation is organized for charitable, religious, educational, literary, and scientific purposes. The name and street address of the incorporator of the corporation is Thomas J. Malicki, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska, 68114. The corporation will not have members.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CEDAR OAKS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Cedar Oaks, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 8521 A Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68520. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CHOO CHOO TRAIN INVESTMENTS LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CHOO CHOO TRAIN INVESTMENTS LLC was formed in Nebraska with the following registered agent and office: McGrath North Mullin & Kratz, PC LLO, c/o Jon Blumenthal, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102. The LLC’s designated office address is c/o Jon Blumenthal, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF LODGEPOLE REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of Lodgepole Real Estate, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (“Company”), has been amended to be designated as a professional limited liability company providing Real Estate Services. The Amended Certificate of Organization was filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on May 7, 2026.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SOWER LVFII MARION 1370, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sower LVFII Marion 1370, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 920 S. 107th Avenue, Suite 250, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The Registered Agent and Office of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
GUIDING GRACE MOTHERHOOD SUPPORT NETWORK
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Articles of Incorporation of Guiding Grace Motherhood Support Network, a Nebraska nonprofit corporation, have been amended and were duly filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 27, 2026. Included in the Amended
Articles of Incorporation is an amendment to change the name of the corporation to Guiding Grace Family Support Network. Dvorak Law Group, LLC 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100
Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO
1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF FAIRVIEW ONE, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FAIRVIEW ONE, LLC was formed in Nebraska with the following registered agent and office: McGrath North Mullin & Kratz, PC LLO, c/o Thomas M. Worthington, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102. The designated office address is c/o Thomas M. Worthington, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
BURNETT LEGAL GROUP, LLP
Charles L. Grimes, Attorney 17525 Arbor Street Omaha, NE 68130
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CLB DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CLB DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The initial Designated Office is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The Company’s initial Registered Agent in the State of Nebraska is: Charles L. Grimes, whose address is 17525 Arbor Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful business and activity, as may be mutually agreed upon by the Members from time to time, and which are not prohibited by the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The Company commenced with filing its Certificate of Organization on April 28, 2026 and shall have a perpetual period of duration. The Company is a Member Managed Limited Liability Company.
Charles L. Grimes, Organizer
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF PCHW, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that PCHW, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 28401 Laurel Circle, Valley, Nebraska 68064. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100
Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF VISTAR WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Articles of Incorporation of Vistar Water Technologies, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, have been amended and restated in their entirety and were duly filed with the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 27, 2026. Included in the Amended Articles of Incorporation is an amendment for the surrender of all presently held shares of common stock and the authorization to issue 1,000,000 shares of common stock in exchange therefore.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF NEW MEMS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NEW MEMS, LLC (the “Company”), a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its initial designated office at 19258 Poppleton Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68130 with Fadi Alsaleem as the Company’s agent for service of process at that address.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Law Offices
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114
Telephone 402-392-1250
Facsimile 402-392-0816
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF PK CREATIVE GROUP LLC
PK Creative Group LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The street and mailing addresses of the initial designated office of the company are 10652 Woolworth Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska 68124. The name and street and mailing addresses of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Robert M. Schartz, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GOLDENROD MECHANICAL SERVICES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Goldenrod Mechanical Services, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 14606 Branch Street, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The Registered Agent of the Company is Goldenrod RA, Inc., 14606 Branch Street, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68154.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF CEDAR OAKS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of Cedar Oaks, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (“Company”), has been amended by updating the Designated Office Address to 5701 South 112th Street, Lincoln, NE 68526.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SMH RENTALS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SMH Rentals, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 20371 Jeannie Lane, Gretna, Nebraska 68028. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDED CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF TRUE BUILD, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate of Organization of True Build, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company (“Company”), has been amended by updating the Designated Office Address to 3439 23rd Street E, Columbus, NE 68601. Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF CONVERSION AND ORGANIZATION OF BIG IRON AUCTION COMPANY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Big Iron Auction Company, a Nebraska corporation, has been converted into Big Iron Auction Company, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company by filing Articles of Conversion and Certificate of Organization with the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 29, 2026. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 213 Beaver Street, St. Edward, NE 68660. The Registered Agent of the Company is Ronald Stock, 213 Beaver Street, St. Edward, NE 68660.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GT5 HORIZONS RIDGE, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GT5 Horizons Ridge, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 23021 J Plaza, Elkhorn, NE 68022. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Daniel J. Waters, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, Nebraska 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PUZZLE MILL, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is The Puzzle Mill, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 711 N. 108th Court, Omaha, NE 68154. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on April 22, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 4919-7986-8832, v. 1
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CALDAVEST RECRUITMENT, LLC
Notice is hereby given that CALDAVEST RECRUITMENT, LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its initial designated office at 5606 N 181st Street, Elkhorn, Nebraska 68022 and with its initial agent for service of process as Constance O Shedrack, 5606 N 181st Street, Elkhorn, Nebraska 68022
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Law Offices
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114-3419
Telephone 402-392-1250
Facsimile 402-392-0816
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DGS Residential Properties LLC
DGS Residential Properties LLC has been organized as a foreign limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office of the company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and street and mailing address of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are David C. Nelson, Abrahams Kaslow & Cassman LLP, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
ERICKSON | SEDERSTROM, P.C.
10330 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF BLOOM VENTURES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Bloom Ventures, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska with its designated office located at 12948 Chandler Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68138 and designating its registered agent as Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C., a Limited Liability Organization with its registered office at 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100, Omaha, NE 68114.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE OF ORGANIZATION OF BTF ROCKS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that BTF ROCKS, LLC, has filed an Amended and Restated Certificate of Organization with the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 27, 2026. The Amendment and Restatement changes the business address to 4427 W. 76th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127, the registered agent to LDM Business Services, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114, and removes restrictions and information not required to be disclosed under Nebraska law. LDM Business Services, Inc.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF TETRAD DONUTS LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Tetrad Donuts LLC (the “LLC”) filed a Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State and is in the process of voluntary dissolution and winding up of activities. Terms and conditions of the dissolution shall be established by the LLC’s Member in conformity with the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. Claims against the LLC may be presented in writing to Jeffrey S. Penne, 1601 Dodge St, Ste 3700, Omaha, NE 68102, and specify the nature of the claim, the amount of the claim and the name and address of the claimant. A claim against the LLC is barred unless an action to enforce the claim is commenced within five (5) years after the publication date of the third required notice. First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CARE HPM, LLC
Pursuant to the Neb. Rev. St. §§ 21-193 & 21-117, notice is hereby given that the undersigned has formed a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The name of the Limited Liability Company is Care HPM, LLC. The address of the Company’s initial registered office in Nebraska is 9375 Burt Street, Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68114 and the name of its registered agent at such address is Paul D. Heimann. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial designated office is 10032 Seward Street, Omaha, NE 68114. This company is organized to engage in and to do any lawful business for any lawful purpose, for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Company’s duration is perpetual beginning on the date the Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska. The affairs of the limited liability company are conducted by Managers, Members and such other officers as may be provided for in the Operating Agreement. Howard C. Edwards, Jr., Member; Paul Heimann, Organizer, 9375 Burt Street, Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68114, (402) 408-6488. First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Craig W. Benson Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF BLUE COUCH, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Blue Couch, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on April 17, 2026 and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
CROKER HUCK LAW FIRM
Lindsey A. Schuler, Attorney 2120 S. 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, NE 68124
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HADRON, LLC
The name of the limited liability company is Hadron, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124. The name and address of the initial agent for service of process is Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Anderson & Gonderinger, LLC, 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124. First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMPETENCE PLATFORM, L.L.C.
Pursuant to the Neb. Rev. St. §§ 21-193 & 21-117, notice is hereby given that the undersigned has formed a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act.
The name of the Limited Liability Company is Virtual Competence Platform, L.L.C.
The address of the Company’s initial registered office in Nebraska is 9375 Burt Street, Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68114 and the name of its registered agent at such address is Connor W. Orr. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial designated office is 3621 San Mateo Lane, Lincoln, NE 68516.
This company is organized to engage in and to do any lawful business for any lawful
purpose, for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.
The Company’s duration is perpetual beginning on the date the Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska.
The affairs of the limited liability company are conducted by Manager, Member and such other officers as may be provided for in the Operating Agreement.
David Shoff, Member and Manager
Connor W. Orr, Organizer 9375 Burt Street, Suite 200 Omaha, NE 68114 (402) 408-6488
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HIGH SIDE HOLDINGS, L.L.C.
Pursuant to the Neb. Rev. St. §§ 21-193 & 21-117, notice is hereby given that the undersigned has formed a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The name of the Limited Liability Company is HIGH SIDE HOLDINGS, L.L.C. The address of the Company’s initial registered office in Nebraska is 9375 Burt Street, Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68114 and the name of its registered agent at such address is Connor W. Orr. The street and mailing address of the Company’s initial designated office is 20273 Blondo Parkway Elkhorn, Nebraska, 68022.This company is organized to engage in and to do any lawful business for any lawful purpose, for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Company’s duration is perpetual beginning on the date the Certificate of Organization was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nebraska. The affairs of the limited liability company are conducted by Manager, Member and such other officers as may be provided for in the Operating Agreement. Jacob Landers, Member and Manager Connor W. Orr, Organizer9375 Burt Street, Suite 200 Omaha, NE 68114 (402) 408-6488
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700
Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF TC NEW JERSEY, L.L.C.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TC New Jersey, L.L.C. (the “LLC”) filed a Statement of Dissolution with the Nebraska Secretary of State and is in the process of voluntary dissolution and winding up of activities. Terms and conditions of the dissolution shall be established by the LLC’s Member in conformity with the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. Claims against the LLC may be presented in writing to Jeffrey S. Penne, 1601 Dodge St, Ste 3700, Omaha, NE 68102, and specify the nature of the claim, the amount of the claim and the name and address of the claimant. A claim against the LLC is barred unless an action to enforce the claim is commenced within five (5) years after the publication date of the third required notice.
First publication May 15, 2026, final May 29, 2026
ERICKSON | SEDERSTROM, P.C.
10330 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DCHA SINGLE FAMILY, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DCHA Single Family, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska with its designated office located at 3211 North 90th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134 and designating its registered agent as Rhonda A. Hodge-Mason with its registered office at 3211 North 90th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68134.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
Gnuse LAW OFFICE, P.C.
Rodney G. Gnuse 11311 Chicago Circle Omaha, NE 68154
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF OMAHA PROFESSIONAL MOBILE NOTARY, L.L.C.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Omaha Professional Mobile Notary, L.L.C., a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 2878 Iowa Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68112. The general nature of its business is to engage in and do any lawful act concerning any and all lawful business for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the limited liability company’s initial registered office is 11311 Chicago Circle, Omaha, NE 68154, and the name of its’ initial registered agent at such address is Rodney G. Gnuse. The Certificate of Organization was filed in the office of the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 23, 2026. The Company commenced business thereon and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be conducted by the Members. Rodney G. Gnuse, Organizer First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
ABRAHAMS KASLOW & CASSMAN LLP, Law Offices
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68114-3419
Telephone 402-392-1250
Facsimile 402-392-0816
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF AI WORKHORSE, LLC
AI Workhorse, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The street and mailing address of the initial designated office of the company is 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The name and street and mailing address of the initial registered agent of the company for service of process are Andrew P. Deaver, Abrahams Kaslow & Cassman LLP, 8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 300, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO
1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF HOTTY TODDY JAYHAWKER, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Hotty Toddy JayHawker, LLC was formed in Nebraska with the following registered agent and office: McGrath North Mullin & Kratz, PC LLO, c/o Jonathan L. Grob, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102. The LLC’s designated office address is c/o Jonathan L. Grob, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Daniel J. Waters, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF COSMIC BROWNIE, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is Cosmic Brownie, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 2029 S. 164th Ave., Omaha, NE 68130. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on April 27, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 4919-7986-8832, v. 1
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SWEET AND SPELLBOUND LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sweet and Spellbound LLC (the Company) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 8113 S 151st Ave, Omaha, NE 68138. The Registered Agent of the Company is Savannah Greenfield Overland at 8113 S 151st Ave, Omaha, NE 68138. First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF FIVE4710, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Five4710, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 6003 Old Cheney Road, Suite 350, Lincoln, NE 68516. The Registered Agent of the Company is DDLG Business Services, Inc., 9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF ELITE CLEAN PROS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Elite Clean Pros, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under Nebraska laws, with its designated office at 3052 S 35th Avenue, Omaha, NE 68107. It is organized to transact any lawful business for which a Limited Liability Company maybe organized under Nebraska laws. Its affairs are to be conducted by the manager Frank Hernandez Alcantara. Its registered agent is Frank Hernandez Alcantara and his office is located at 3052 S 35th Avenue, Omaha, NE 68107. First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF KNAILZBYKLAUDIA, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that KNAILZBYKLAUDIA, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The address of the Company’s designated office is 1910 S 44th Street, Omaha NE and the name of the registered agent at such address is Claudia Goll. The general nature of the business is any legal and lawful activity allowed pursuant to the Nebraska Limited Liability Company Act and the laws of the State of Nebraska and elsewhere. The Company commenced business on April 7th 2026 and shall have perpetual existence. The affairs of the Company are to be managed by its managers. Claudia Goll organizer
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3799 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF WCW HOLDINGS INC.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that WCW HOLDINGS INC. was incorporated in Nebraska with the following registered agent and office: McGrath North Mullin & Kratz, PC LLO, c/o Patrick J. Straka, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102. The corporation is authorized to issue 1,000 shares. The name and address of the incorporator is Martin L. Wulf, 19102 S 156th St., Springfield, NE 68059.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION OF SHORT INSURANCE INC.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Short Insurance Inc. has been incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska with the following registered agent and registered office: Judy Short at 4689 Pioneer Rd. Blair, NE 68008. The general nature of the Company’s business is to engage lawful business permitted under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The company was incorporated on April 20, 2026, and it shall continue in perpetuity unless sooner terminated in accordance with the terms of its operating agreement. The number of shares the corporation is authorized to issue is 1500. In general, the Company’s business is to be managed by its primary officer and incorporator Judy Short, in accordance with the Company’s operating agreement.
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF PIERTEK, INC.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Articles of Incorporation of Piertek, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, have been amended and restated in their entirety and were duly filed with
the Nebraska Secretary of State on April 27, 2026. Included in the Amended Articles of Incorporation is an amendment for the surrender of all presently held shares of common stock and the authorization to issue 1,000,000 shares of common stock in exchange therefore.
Dvorak Law Group, LLC
9500 West Dodge Road, Suite 100
Omaha, NE 68114
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive
Omaha, Nebraska 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AKSARBEN APPRAISALS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is AKSARBEN APPRAISALS, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 19111 Riviera Dr., Omaha, NE 68136. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on April 22, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 4925-5460-8795, v. 1
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF T F A GOLD, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is T F A GOLD, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 4144 N 60th Ave., Omaha, NE 68104. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on April 29, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 49255460-8795, v. 1
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF RAJ AVANI ENTERPRISES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Raj Avani Enterprises, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska with its designated office located at 4718 Lockbourne Avenue, Papillion, Nebraska 68123 and designating its registered agent as Erickson & Sederstrom, P.C., a Limited Liability Organization with its registered office at 10330 Regency Parkway Drive, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68114.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF K SMITH LEGACY PROPERTIES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a limited liability company has been formed under the name of K Smith Legacy Properties, LLC. The registered agent is Kyle Smith, 17504 Wright St, Omaha, NE 68130. The address of the designated office is 17504 Wright St, Omaha, NE 68130. The general nature of its business is to engage in and do any lawful act concerning any and all lawful business other than banking or insurance, for which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The company commenced on April 23, 2026 and has perpetual existence. The affairs of the limited liability company are to be conducted by its members until such time as their successors(s) are selected pursuant to the Operating Agreement.
K Smith Legacy Properties, LLC
Kyle Smith
17504 Wright St Omaha, NE 68130
First publication May 8, 2026, final May 22, 2026
MCGRATH NORTH MULLIN & KRATZ, PC LLO
1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700 Omaha, NE 68102
NOTICE OF CONVERSION OF WULF’S CUSTOM WELDING, INC. INTO WULF’S CUSTOM WELDING, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 22, 2026, WULF’S CUSTOM WELDING, INC. (“Corporation”) filed Articles of Conversion with a Certificate of Organization to convert the Corporation into WULF’S CUSTOM WELDING, LLC (“LLC”) with the following registered agent and office: McGrath North Mullin & Kratz, PC LLO, c/o Patrick J. Straka, 1601 Dodge Street, Suite 3700, Omaha, NE 68102. The LLC’s designated office address is 19102 S 156th St., Springfield, NE 68059. First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
CROKER HUCK LAW FIRM
SCOTT D. JOCHIM, Attorney
2120 S. 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, NE 68124
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF RIP IT & SHIP IT, LLC
The name of the limited liability company is Rip It & Ship It, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 6701 L Street, Omaha, NE 68117. The name and address of the initial agent for service of process is Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Anderson & Gonderinger, LLC, 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124. First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF GCP III SILVER COMET B2, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GCP III Silver Comet B2, LLC (the “Company”) has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address of the Company is 14606 Branch Street, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The Registered Agent of the Company is Goldenrod RA, Inc., 14606 Branch Street, Suite 100, Omaha, Nebraska 68154.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF SARAH BURTON DESIGN LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Limited Liability Company has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.
The name of the Limited Liability Company is: Sarah Burton Design LLC
The designated office and Registered Agent is: Sarah Burton, 14993 Charles Cir, Omaha, NE 68154
The general nature of the business is: Interior Design
The Limited Liability Company commenced existence on March 13th, 2026 and has perpetual duration unless otherwise stated. Sarah Burton, Organizer First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
ERICKSON SEDERSTROM P.C., L.L.O.
Mary E. Vandenack, Esq. mvand@eslaw.com | (402) 397-2200
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF COLLABORATIVE PSYCH BILLING SOLUTIONS LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Collaborative Psych Billing Solutions LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The address of the initial designated office of the company is 18049 Oak Street, Omaha, NE 68130. The agent for service of process for the Company is Erickson & Sederstrom, PC, Limited Liability Organization and 10330 Regency Parkway Dr. Ste. 100 Omaha, NE 68114 is the registered office.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
Yole Law PC, LLO Damilola J. Oluyole 7930 Blondo Street, Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68134
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME 2, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME 2, LLC has been organized as a limited liability company under Nebraska laws, with its designated office at 6333 Apples Way, Suite 101, Lincoln, NE 68516. It is organized to transact any lawful business for which a Limited Liability Company may be organized under Nebraska laws. Its duration is perpetual commencing from April 13, 2026. The company’s affairs are conducted by its manager and registered agent, Reina Terhaar-Reyes, and her office is located at 6333 Apples Way, Suite 101, Lincoln, NE 68516.
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF DSBC, LLC
DSBC, LLC, with its designated office located at 1408 Fort Crook Rd N., Ste 300, Bellevue, NE 68005, gives notice that it filed a Certificate of Organization with the Secretary of State on April 17, 2026. The registered agent is Barbara Medbery-Prchal and the Registered Office is 3555 Farnam St. Suite 1000, Omaha, NE 68131. The company may engage in any lawful business or commercial activity for which a limited liability company may be organized. Matt Fitzgerald, Organizer First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
Charles E. Dorwart, P.C., L.L.O.
Charles E. Dorwart 7305 Main Street, The Granary District Ralston, NE. 68127
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF EGJZ Properties, L.L.C.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that EGJZ Properties, L.L.C. has been incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated &. registered office located at, 1508 A Circle, Omaha, NE 68144. The registered agent is Jeffrey S. Zacharia. The general nature of the business is to transact all lawful business for which a limited liability company may be incorporated under the Nebraska law including general services to the public providing real estate management, sales and purchases. The company was incorporated on April 6, 2026, and shall have a perpetual existence. Its purpose is to provide general services to the public.
The affairs of the company are to be conducted by Member Managers as designated in the operating agreement.
Jeffrey S. Zacharia, Managing Member
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF PRIDE DECKS AND EXTERIORS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is PRIDE DECKS AND EXTERIORS, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 7009 S 167TH St., Omaha, NE 68136. The name and address of the registered agent is LDM Business Services, Inc., 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, NE 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The company commenced existence on April 16, 2026, and shall have perpetual duration. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by the Members, as prescribed by the Operating Agreement. LDM Business Services, Inc. 4925-5460-8795, v. 1
First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
CROKER HUCK LAW FIRM
SCOTT D. JOCHIM, Attorney
2120 S. 72nd Street, Suite 1200 Omaha, NE 68124
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF CMMA, LLC
The name of the limited liability company is CMMA, LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 8403 Walnut Circle, Omaha, NE 68124. The name and address of the initial agent for service of process is Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Anderson & Gonderinger, LLC, 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, NE 68124. First publication May 1, 2026, final May 15, 2026
TRADE NAME REGISTRATION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that Certified IAQ Professionals LLC, whose address is 3909 Cuming Street, suite 201, Omaha NE 68131, has registered a Trade Name with the Nebraska Secretary of State.
The Trade Name registered is: M.A.R.S. Environmental
The nature of the business is: environmental consulting and remediation
This Trade Name was registered on 4/16/2026 with the Nebraska Secretary of State.
Sincerely Jeanine Humphrey/ Owner
First publication May 15, 2026
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: 2 CHICKS SHAKEN & STIRRED
Name of Applicant: DIAMOND RELEAF HOLDINGS CORP
Address: 3863 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE 68131
Applicant is Individual Corporation
Limited Liability Company Partnership
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws’ entity was formed: Nebraska
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: March 2024
General nature of business: mobile bar cart
Revised 07/01/2021. Neb. Rev. Stat. §87-210 First publication May 15, 2026
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: SHARED ABUNDANCE.
Name of Applicant: Irene Burklund
Address: 10305 S 102ND ST, PAPILLION, NE 68046
Applicant is TRADE NAME.
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska.
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: 4/29/2026.
General nature of business: Art and Pottery.
Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative /s/Irene Burklund.
First publication May 15, 2026
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: HAVELOCK PHYSICAL THERAPY.
Name of Applicant: Nebraska City Physical Therapy, LLC
Address: 1104 GRUNDMAN BLVD, NEBRASKA CITY, NE 68410
Applicant is LLC.
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska.
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: 04-18-2005.
General nature of business: Physical Therapy.
Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative /s/Darrell Metcalf
First publication May 15, 2026
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: ELLE SEALS EVENTS.
Name of Applicant: ELLE SEALS, LLC
Address: 813 S. 48TH STREET, OMAHA, NE 68106
Applicant is LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: NEBRASKA.
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: FEBRUARY 18, 2026.
General nature of business: EVENT DESIGN, COORDINATION, AND FLORIST.
Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative /s/ELIZABETH SEALS, MANAGER.
First publication May 15, 2026
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3555 Farnam St., Ste. 1000, Omaha, NE 68131
NOTICE OF NON-PROFIT INCORPORATION OF OPEN ROOF ARTS, INC.
The name of the non-profit corporation is Open Roof Arts, Inc.
The registered office of the corporation is 2307 S. 33rd St., Omaha, NE 68105.
The registered agent is Miriam Gutiérrez.
The corporation is a public benefit corporation, is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes within the meaning of § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, along with any other lawful purposes allowed under the Nebraska Non-Profit Corporations Act.
The corporation commenced on December 15, 2025, and shall have perpetual existence. The name and address of the incorporator is Miriam Gutiérrez, 2307 S. 33rd St., Omaha, NE 68105.
The corporation will not have members.
First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF CITY RANCH HOMESTEAD, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CITY RANCH HOMESTEAD, LLC, with its designated office at 11725 S. 36th Street, Bellevue, NE 68123, gives notice that it filed a Certificate of Organization with the Secretary of State on December 9, 2025. The registered agent and office is Barbara MedberyPrchal, 3555 Farnam Street, Suite 1000, Omaha, Nebraska 68131. CITY RANCH HOMESTEAD, LLC may engage in any lawful business for which a limited liability company may be formed under the Nebraska Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. Ashley Nye, Organizer First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026
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APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: S CLUB STUDIOS.
Name of Applicant: ELLE SEALS, LLC.
Address: 813 S. 48TH STREET, OMAHA, NE 68106.
Applicant is ELLE SEALS, LLC.
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: NEBRASKA.
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: FEBRUARY 18, 2026.
General nature of business: EVENT DESIGN, COORDINATION, AND FLORIST.
Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative /s/ELIZABETH SEALS, MANAGER.
First publication May 15, 2026
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: TRUJILLO CONSULTING.
Name of Applicant: Old Widow Society LLC
Address: 200 S 21ST ST., STE. 400A, LINCOLN, NE 68510
Applicant is LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska.
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: Upon Filing.
General nature of business: Consulting.
Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative /s/Aimee Lowe.
First publication May 15, 2026
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE NAME
Trade Name to be registered is: RESILIO THERAPY.
Name of Applicant: Bloom Ventures, LLC
Address: 12948 CHANDLER STREET, OMAHA, NE 68138
Applicant is LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
If other than an Individual, state under whose laws entity was formed: Nebraska.
Date of first use of name in Nebraska: Upon Filing.
General nature of business: Counseling and social services.
Signature of Applicant or Legal Representative /s/Katie Bloom.
First publication May 15, 2026
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professional corporation, (the “Corporation”) filed Articles of Dissolution with the Secretary of State on December 30, 2025. If you have a claim against the Corporation, you should mail notice to Croker Huck Law Firm, 2120 South 72nd Street, Suite 1200, Omaha, Nebraska 68124, and include the following information: name of claimant, amount of claim, goods or services covered by the claim, date claim originated, supporting documentation (if available). Any claim against the corporation will be barred unless a proceeding to enforce said claim is commenced within three years of the date of this published notice.
MICHAEL A. STARKEY, DDS, P.C.
By: /s/ Michael A. Starkey, President First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Seofan Acorns Service LLC, a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska.
1. Designated Office: 21532 I Street, Elkhorn, NE 68022
2. Registered Agent: Haitao Luan at 21532 I Street, Elkhorn, NE 68022. Xiangxue Lu, Organizer
First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF OMAHA HELICOPTERS, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that OMAHA HELICOPTERS, LLC (“the Company”) has been organized under the laws if the State of Nebraska. The Designated Office Address is 10842 Old Mill Road, Suite 2, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. The Registered Agent of the Company is Nichole Mallett, 10842 Old Mill Road, Omaha, Nebraska, 68154. First publication January 9, 2026final January 23, 2026. First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF OLD GLORY VINTAGE IRON, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Old Glory Vintage Iron, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company has been duly organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its designated office located at 13602 North 66th Street, Omaha, NE 68152 and designating its registered agent as Jim Tripp, with its registered office at 13602 North 66th Street, Omaha, NE 68152. First publication January 2, 2026, final January 16, 2026
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NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO THE CERTIFICATE OF
OF TGLG DPA, LLC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the
Phillip T. Sanberg, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ROUNDABOUT VENTURES, LLC
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the limited liability company is ROUNDABOUT VENTURES LLC. The address of the initial designated office is 200 S. 21st St., Ste. 400A, Lincoln, NE 68510. The name and address of the registered agent is Registered Agents Inc, 200 S.
nature of the business Nebraska 68154. The Registered Agent of the Company is Nichole Mallett, 10842 Old Mill Road, Suite 2, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026. First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026
Erin K. Artz, Attorney 10306 Regency Parkway Drive Omaha, NE 68114
NOTICE OF THE INCORPORATION OF HOCHSTEIN, INC.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a public benefit corporation under the laws of the State of Nebraska, and that the name of the corporation is Hochstein, Inc. The name and address of the incorporator and registered agent is LDM Business Services, 10306 Regency Parkway Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68114. The general nature of the business to be transacted is all lawful business. The corporation commenced existence on October 10, 2025 and shall have perpetual duration. The corporation is authorized to issued Two Thousand Five Hundred (2,500) shares of common stock with par value of One Cent ($0.01) per share. LDM Business Services, Inc. First publication January 9, 2026, final January 23, 2026 LAMSON DUGAN & MURRAY LLP Erin K. Artz, Attorney
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the formation of a
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