April showers
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Freshman music education major Jen Backenstose walks back from Westbrook Music
Building Sunday afternoon in the rain. Showers and chilly temperatures are expected to last for
a few more days, but warmer days are expected by the end of the week.
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Man suffers seizure, drowns
OMAHA (AP) - A 57-year-ofd
Omaha man suffered a seizure while
fishing and drowned at the Hanscom
Park lagoon Saturday afternoon, po
lice and hospital officials said.
A teen-age boy standing nearby
tried to help Jack H. Conrad, but was
afraid to jump into the water because
he could not swim.
Police officials said Conrad was in
the water more than 10 minutes before
two bystanders pulled Conrad out.
The two rescuers tried to massage
the angler’s chest to get the water out
of his lungs but Conrad was barely
breathing when he was taken to St.
Joseph Hospital.
Doctors tried to resuscitate him
without success, said St. Joseph Hos
pital spokeswoman Jo Miller.
“According to our doctors, he had
the seizure first but died from the
drowning,” Miller said. Omaha po
lice spokesman Sgt. William Muldoon
said Conrad had a history of seizures.
Jesse Pokomy, a student at South
High School in Omaha, said he was
fishing nearby when Conrad began
shaking. He said he saw Conrad fall
into the water, drifting about five feet
into the lagoon.
Pokomy said he couldn’t reach him
and didn’t dare to jump in.
“I’m afraid of water; I can’t swim,”
he said.
He yelled for help and ran across
the park to call 911 from a nearby
house. Pokomy’s mother, Tina Pike,
said she tried to use the pay phone in
the park’s pavilion to call for help, but
it didn’t work.
After the rescue squad had taken
Conrad to the hospital, the Zebco fish
ing rod with a 10-pound line, a box of
com he had been using for bait and a
wet spot on the rocks remained.
Pokorny stopped fishing. Sitting
on the bench, he observed the spot
where Conrad fell into the water.
“1 tried to grab him, but I couldn’t
reach him,” he said quietly.
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Arbor Day Farm center
gets Lied challenge grant
From Staff Reports
NEBRASKA CITY — The Lied
Conference Center at Arbor Day Farm
received a $2.5 million challenge grant
from the Lied Foundation Trust of Las
Vegas, Nev., which it will use to double
its lodging capacity.
The grant came during the National
Arbor Day Awards Banquet Saturday
at the conference center on the south
ern edge of Arbor Day Farm, which
was once the estate of Arbor Day
founder J. Sterling Morton.
The estimated cost of expanding
the facility from 96 to 200 rooms is
about $9 million, $2 million of which
will be provided by the Lied Founda
tion Trust.
The trust will provide an additional
grant of $500,000 toward the existing
center if $1 million in cash donations
are raised by the end of the year.
The center opened in October 1993
and has become a popular tourist des
tination as well as a conference center.
Conferences held at the center have
addressed topics such as planting trees,
community forestry, sustainable agri
culture, trees and utilities, educating
youth about trees, forest stewardship,
trees and the law and biomass for en
ergy.
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