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Bogert, Hicks to attend boys state

Sam Bogert of Dix, sponsored by Dix American Legion Post 292, will join nearly 400 high school juniors from across Nebraska by participating in the American Legion Cornhusker Boys' State, which will be held May 31 through June 6 at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The annual citizenship program, sponsored by the Nebraska American Legion, is designed to provide youths with a better understanding of how city, county and state governments operate. Each boy is sponsored locally by an organization such as an American Legion Post or by some other patriotic, civic, fraternal or religious group in cooperation with the American Legion Post. In addition to Dix American Legion Post 292, other groups that helped sponsor Bogert include American Legion Post 17 of Sidney, R-R Service of Dix and High West Energy of Pine Bluffs, Wyo.

American Legion Cornhusker Boys' State is set up as a functional "51st state" and each boy learns how government subdivisions operate by actually doing the job. Participants will campaign for offices, hold elections, take part in the band and the chorus, compete in athletics, and be involved in other varied activities as part of the citizenship training program. They will set up their own state government and draft bills.

Special lectures and addresses will be delivered by experienced public officials and professional leaders, including Gov. Pete Ricketts and Supreme Court Chief Justice John M. Gerrard. National acclaimed motivational speaker JoAnne Owens-Nauslar is also scheduled to address the group.

The Potter American Legion Post #291 has selected Coby Hicks of Potter-Dix High School to attend the 75th annual session of the American Legion Cornhusker Boys' State program to be held May 31 through June 6 on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Coby, the son of Todd and Amee Hicks of Potter, has excelled not only in the classroom, but in many other activities in his first three years at Potter-Dix High School.

Coby will join nearly 400 other high school juniors from across Nebraska participating in the program in Lincoln. The annual citizenship program, sponsored by the Nebraska American Legion, is designed to provide youth with a better understanding of how city, county and state governments operate. Each boy is sponsored locally by an organization such as an American Legion post or by some other patriotic, civil, fraternal or religious group in cooperation with the local American Legion post. The Potter American Legion would like to thank the Potter Lions Club for helping sponsor Cornhusker Boys' State, to make it possible to send this fine young man from Potter-Dix High School.

Special lectures and addresses will be delivered by experienced public officials and professional leaders from Nebraska, on subjects pertinent to the program of instructions.