Here's your local news at a glance for Friday, the 30th of October.
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🏘️ Community
Omaha BMX will host its free annual Halloween race and trunk-or-treat today at Hefflinger Park, featuring costumes, candy, and a family-friendly glow ride where kids can decorate bikes and meet local riders.
Gloria Caniglia, who helped serve people experiencing homelessness and shared family recipes with the Siena Francis House community, will be honored at funeral services today at Siena Francis House with staff, volunteers, and family in attendance.
After flash flooding nearly a month ago, family members began repairing Aunt Cici’s Elmwood Park home after seeing the basement on Oct.
1 so they can sell the house to fund her assisted living, and they launched a GoFundMe to cover repairs (1,000 sqft home).
Eppley Airport opened four gates in the South Terminal this week with larger restrooms (28 stalls per side, four ADA stalls), charging at every seat, cup holders, and adult changing stations.
Travelers will keep using existing security checkpoints until a centralized checkpoint and pedestrian bridge open in February.
🎭 Culture
CHI Health Center unveiled Nebraska's first projection mapping system that uses four projectors to sync with arena systems and turn the court into a giant monitor, and it debuts Monday alongside the Creighton men's basketball home opener against the Kansas City Roos.
Multiple Halloween-weekend events run today through Sunday across the metro, including Broadway's Death Becomes Her at the Orpheum with shows tonight and this weekend, Kiewit Luminarium's Night Light costume event Friday from 7 to 10 p.m., haunted attractions within 25 minutes, pumpkin patches, and special museum and theater programs.
🎓 Education
Allies for Sign holds a monthly ASL-only lunch at the Milo Bail Student Center over the lunch hour to help students practice American Sign Language and connect with the Deaf community + support UNO's ASL interpreting program, the only such degree in Nebraska.
UNO's Campus Recreation and Wellness hires about 120 students as the largest on-campus employer, giving students hands-on roles that build communication, leadership, time-management, and emergency-response skills; applications are open year-round through Handshake (facility is open more than 100 hours a week).
🏥 Health
A free lead-testing event was held Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at UNO's Campus Community Engagement Center, where the Douglas County Health Department, the city's lead information office, and Conservation Nebraska tested household items like spices, toys, and pottery and shared information on lead exposure.
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