Dickinson honored at annual meeting

Rick Dickinson was recently named the Nebraska Rural Water District Operator of the Year, according to County Commissioner Tim Nolting, an honor handed out just once a year to only one individual throughout the state.

Water operators in municipalities across Nebraska must be certified, a process that takes a minimum of 40 hours to complete in a classroom and with hands-on training ending with a certification exam, Dickinson said.

Those certifications require continued education as well and operators are expected to collect and send in routine monthly water samples, and additional samples as...