![]() September 12 Milo Day Carleton (Thayer) 40 September 12 Otoe BBQ Otoe, NE Facebook -The Otoe Bar-beque September 12 Annual Moonshell Storytelling Festival Eugene T. 10-13 Plattsmouth Harvest Festival Main Street Plattsmouth, NE September 11-12 Annual Pie Sale during Platts-mouth Harvest Festival Cass County Historical Soci-ety Museum 646 Main Street Plattsmouth, NE 40 org Museum, Cabin and caboose open special hours 10:00 am. It’s good for Nebraska City as a whole to have a clean town that is attractive to other people, and maybe the population will start growing again.Southeast Nebraska 2020 Visitor Guide: They might want to move their business here,” Coates said. “When you have a clean town, and people come from other cities and see how clean your town is, it’s attractive to them and they might want to move here. Litter clean-up and prevention goes beyond just making the city look nice. DuBois is working with the local high school student council to educate students on the issues of litter. ![]() “If we can teach them young not to throw their garbage out the window, maybe in 20 years we won’t even need to be doing this,” DuBois said.Īccording to DuBois, the mission of KNCB is to educate people on recycling, beautification and litter pickup. ![]() On top of just picking up trash, the KNBC is working on educating the younger generation in order to combat the issue of litter. The local Boy Scouts troop goes out after the parade in order to pick up any trash left on the street. (Photo by Sarah Merza/NNS)Īfter the festival, trash clean-up is focused around Central Avenue. From left, Sue Little, Jaclyn Krefels and Sarah Hobbie clean up litter along the highway North 75 entrance into Nebraska City. This is also one of the busiest entrances for the festivals, Coates said. People get pulled a lot in different ways, lately, but they still want to see the town look pretty,” said Patty Coates, the KNCB board president.Īccording to the executive director of Keep Nebraska City Beautiful, Sally DuBois, the highway North 75 entrance into Nebraska City has the worst issues with litter. “Usually a lot of people turn out to help clean up. 12, four girls from Girl Scout Troop 20572 cleaned up litter around the city. Volunteers covered six sites around the city. 11, including residents from the Mission Field Treatment Center, students from the Lourdes Central Student Council, and families from the community. Twenty-seven volunteers participated in the cleanup event on Sept. “We have so many people that come into town for AppleJack, and what a good impression it makes when everything is clean and makes you want to come back year after year,” said Connie Ehlers, a Keep Nebraska City Beautiful board member. The Keep Nebraska City Beautiful program organizes an annual volunteer cleanup crew to clean up litter near the city’s entrances. ![]() The festival is expected to bring between 60,000 and 80,000 people to the community of 7,292 residents. The 53rd annual AppleJack Festival begins Friday, Sept. 11, to prepare for the annual AppleJack Festival. Nebraska City residents cleaned up litter at the city’s entrances on Saturday, Sept.
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