July 21, 2025 • 30 mins
This week’s show featured Carter Lake Fire Department training officer Nate Bradburn promoting a fundraising concert and food event for the department to purchase equipment and gear, First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue historian Betty Kieran inviting the public to a community event honoring the 175th anniversary of the church, and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and Omaha Mayor John Ewing discussing recent illegal immigration operations in the area.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Community Matters, a weekly public affairs program to
inform and entertain you with some of the great people, organizations,
and events in and around Omaha. Now here's the host
of the program from news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Scott for Heats and thank you so much for
being a part of our program this week. There's a
great annual event coming up this Saturday, July twenty sixth.
That's also an annual fundraiser for the Carter Lake Fire Department.
We've got a member of that department with us here.
Nate Bradburn is training officer with the Carter Lake Fire Department,
and we'll be rocking out this Saturday. Hey, Nate, thanks
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a lot for being in here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Thanks for having me Scott, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So let's talk first about what we're doing this Saturday.
Then we'll talk about why we're doing it. What's going on.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
So we are having our annual concert. We've got three bands.
A Beer Garden starts at four and Zip right around ten.
We're going to try and stretch a little bit longer
and give our headliner a little more time. And then
right after that, once the band ends, fireworks start and
it is an amazing firework show.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh, very cool. So the band's playing here, not members,
and maybe there are a few of the carter it's
not the carter Lake Fire Department going out there going hey,
sometimes you put down the hoses and pick up the guitars.
Here we go. You're gonna like this one.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, Actually open up with on the Ledge, which is
a local carter Lake band, and then we go to
someone that's probably a little more known here in Omaha,
High Heel.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, and then our headliner and High Heel do such
a great show. They are they she's amazing. But a
lot of people don't know is her and I dated
back in high school. Yeah, they don't know that because
I don't think it's true.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That's correct, that's quick. However, she did hit me with
that last year on stage at the concert, and I
turned it bright red. It was fun. So we're gonna
keep that going this year. But our headliner, which we're
really excited about this year, is pet Rock.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh yeah, great stuff from the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we got we got very lucky.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, that's great. So you got some really fun party
bands out there. It's going to be a great atmosphere. Sure,
the weather is going to be perfect here. And what
do people need to do in advance to be able
to get tickets for this concert coming up this Saturday?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No tickets. It is one hundred percent free to the public.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know, it's a fundraiser, right, correct.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So that all the funds come from the beer garden.
And we have an awesome sponsor. Our partner is Prairie
Flower Casino, right, And so the Punker tribe in Nebraska
has been very good to us since they are in
Carter Lake. They've partnered with us all four years now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So whatever you have to drink, and I think they'll
probably be food there as well.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Right, So we do have food trucks. It's they switch
it up every year. So I couldn't even tell you
what the food is this year, but I did hear
that they're going to have more food trucks this year.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Right, all right, So whatever you eat and drink is
on you. But just to come in there and enjoy
the concert. Completely free community event.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Completely free community event.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Where is this this Saturday?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
So it's at seventeenth and Q, which is the Carter
Lake Ballfields. We block off a big section of the Street,
and we got a big stage and we have the
best sound guy, Charlie Couch. Anybody who knows Charlie, he's
the best sound guy in the region. So we are
very blessed that a lot of people have joined in
in this this project.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Seventeenth and Q, Carter Lake, carter Lake, yep. So not
not South Omaha.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, I don't go there. You'll be really disappointing you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
To go there. It's a nice little community there, kind
of down the hill from South High School. But in
Carter Lake, that's where the music's going to be. Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
In carter Lake. Seventeenth and Avenue Q, y all right.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So so for those of us who spend a little
time coming around carter Lake Airport golf course, you know
all that stuff, Right, where's seventeenth So it would be
in the Locust.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Okay, So if you were to come in on Locust,
you would take a rite on thirteenth, follow it all
the way down to Avenue Q, take another rite and
you'll end up at seventh. At seventeenth and Avenue Q,
it's all street parking, So drive around in the neighborhoods
until you find a place to park.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
All right, Cool? And there might be some enterprising young
people saying you can park in our yard for five bucks.
Then you pay them five dollars and come back later
and realize those kids don't live at that house.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Potentially, Yes, yes, there's always.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That telling what you might find there. So about seventeenth
and Avenue Q in Carter Lake, you said it starts
at four o'clock this Saturday, right.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So it starts at four o'clock. The beer garden does
open at one, right, and prior to all the festivities,
we do have a parade that starts at eleven, and
there is a festival down in the ballfields from roughly
about twelve thirty till four. So there's something going on
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all day long.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All the details at rockthebootconcert dot com. Rockthebootconcert dot com.
We're talking here with Nate Bradburn, training officer with the
Carterlake Fire Department. This is a fundraising event for the
Carter Lake Fire Department. So how does this event help
out the team there Carter Lake.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So every year we try and kind of get the
nice to have. Unfortunately, this year it's not going to
be part of the nice to haves. There's only so
much money to go around. There's only so much money
in the budget, and all of our bunker gear is
coming of age, so they last about ten years and
then they have to be replaced. So we have about
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thirty five sets of bunker gear that need to replaced
at about five thousand dollars per set. What is bunker gear,
so that would be what the fire uniform that we
wear into a fire. We are not replacing our helmets
or our boots because those are basically new, but we
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do have to replace the coat and the pants, and
so we're able to do with grants and what the
city is offering us, we're able to do about five
sets per quarter. But like I said, we're in a
position where pretty much the money that we make is
going to fund the rest of it. We normally try
not to fund the stuff that the city normally pays for,
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but in the situation, we've made the decision that that's
what we're going to do with it this show.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So there would be people that say, like, well, how
come the taxes from Carter Lake don't go to you know,
take care of the fire department with whatever they.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Need, because fire gear and fire equipment is very expensive
to give you an example, if you wanted to get
a brand new ladder truck, you're talking about three and
a half million dollars. Wow, So okay, so then we
spend a lot of money. We don't make any money
right right.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And then some people say like, well, you guys are
close enough to Almaha and Council Bluffs, can't their teams
just come in there and help you guys out.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So we do have mutual aid agreements and occasionally Omaha
will come in if it's if it's a large normally
if it's an industrial fire or something like that. But
we have a pretty skilled fire department. For example, myself
and our assistant chief we both went through Firefighter one,
Firefighter two, Instructor one together. We both went through EMT
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class together. So we have six paramedics. I mean, there's
you name it. We have guys that have red cards
so they can go do wild one firefighting. We have
a good set of skills in our department.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Sure, and you know, if what you're paying for as
a taxpayer in Carter Lake is the insurance policy, hopefully
you never need it, but you do want to pay
you your few bucks a month, you know, several hour
money dollars a year to have that insurance policy. In
case your house catches on fire, you want the guys
in the community to get there as quickly as possible.
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Right to protect your home, to protect your belongings, to
protect your family. And yeah, you can get for some
of the larger fires, something gets a little crazy, Omaha
Council Bluffs can come out there and help. But if
your house catches on fire, you know down there somewhere
off of Tenth and Locusts or whatever, you want that
team there as quickly as possible. That's what you're paying
for with all this, correct, and you want them to
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be tected too.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right. The important thing that people need to understand is
a fire department A is required by law for a municipality,
and the faster the response time, the better the equipment,
the better trained your fire department is, the cheaper your insurances.
So Carter Lake has one of the lowest ISO ratings
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for a quote unquote volunteer department. Even though we're not
really a volunteer department anymore, we're still federally considered a
volunteer department.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So since carter Lake part of its Nebraska part of
its Iowa I don't know how that works for the
town and the lake area and all that like is
they're like, hey, sorry, your fire is right there on
the other side of where our juris jurisdiction ends the
Carter Lake, Iowa guys are gonna have to handle this.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
See, That's the nice thing is we work really well
with Omaha. There's times when we'll get paged out for
a car accident that's technically an Omaha we handle it.
There's times that they'll get paged out for a fire
that's right on you know that happens to be in Iowa,
but it's right on the line and they might get
there first. But we don't play jurisdiction. I mean, at
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the end of the day, everybody's mission is, you know,
put out fires and save lives.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
What about the airport who gets called out there? I
know they've got some of their own people.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So the airport does have a fire department, but Omaha
has a firehouse that's basically right next door.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
All right, So this is how many members of the
team were we talking about with It's rder like fire department.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Fire members we have, so we do fire and ems,
sure we have I just counted the other day. We
have twenty members and of the twenty, all but four
are fire so we have four that are strictly ems only.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Right, So this fundraiser, Rock the Boot is a great time,
a wonderful community event and also helping raise some money
for essential department needs. And that safety gear you mentioned,
I'm sure you know training. You're the training officer there.
You know some of what you guys get. What you're
able to do there with your team here is also
provided with this annual event, and we got some great
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music to be able to do it. Food, beer garden,
all kinds of fun. So one more time here Nate
tell people to come this Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Saturday Night music starts today too, right right. The music
starts at four pm, beer garden opens at one. Musical
ends sometime between ten and ten thirty yet to be determined.
We'll see how that works out. And as soon as
the music ends, we put on a really good firework show.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, coolky deal and pet rock and d Yeah, it's
going to be great. It's all at Rockthebootconcert dot com.
Rockthebootconcert dot Com is the website this annual event. There
fundraiser for the Carter Lake Fire Department Training officer with
that department, Nate Bradburn, Thank you so much for what
you're doing for our community of Carter Lake and thanks
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a lot for telling us about it on Community Matters.
Thanks guys, I appreciate it you're listening to Community Matters.
And up next in the program, we welcome the clerk
and historian for First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue here to
Community Matters. Betty Kuran is here and Betty, it's great
to have you on the show.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
This is an amazing anniversary coming up this year and
a really fun event to celebrate the one hundred and
seventy fifth anniversary First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. Tell me
about what's happening on Thursday, August fourteenth to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well. On that we will be at the Old Presbyterian Church,
which is in Old Town Bellevue at five o'clock and
we'll have a short ceremony to begin our activities for
this celebration.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's going to be a really nice time, So people
get together at the old Church. Do people know where
that is there at Old Town Bellevue. Where is it?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
It's a twenty to zero zero two Franklin, which is
one of our old town streets.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, so this is on Thursday, August fourteenth. What are
the hours on this event and what's happening that day.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It'll be a short event at five o'clock till about
five point thirty, at which time we'll have various government officials,
state and local, some people from the congregation, and we
will be reviewing where we've come. We have a long
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history from eighteen fifty, even before the state was actually
organized as a state, Bellevue had the early settlers, business people,
There were missionaries to the Native Americans living in the area.
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And we'll just have a little review to celebrate this
milestone that we have.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How was it that you came to be the historian
for First Presbyterian of Bellevue.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
By default, I've been the Clerk of Session, which is
really the secretary of the church board for nearly twenty years.
I've been a member of the congregation for fifty years,
and by just living and breathing the history that we
feel in our congregation, we are extremely blessed that in
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one hundreds and seventy five years we can continue to
carry the goals and the spirits of the first settlers
and the first organizers.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How long have you been a part of this church, Betty?
Did you grow up within this church?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I was led to this church through friends. I've been
a member now for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, that's certainly long enough. That's a good run there
and still going as church church clerk and historian at
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. The event to celebrate the
one hundred seventy one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary is
coming up on Thursday, August fourteenth. They're in old Town
Bellevue at the old location for First Presbyterian. Do you
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have to be a member of the church to be
there or is this open to everybody?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Absolutely not. It's open and we encourage everyone from the community,
the state, whoever wants to come and experience this. They're welcome.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And does it cost anything to be a part of this,
Oh absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
We welcome everyone as our guests. After the ceremony at
the church, we will have a reception and an exhibit
of church artifacts at the Starbey County Museum. And that's
just located at twenty four two Clay Street, just a
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short distance from the church.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, excellent, and that's going to be there for about
six months or so, right to honor this big anniversary.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yes, it will be a continuing exhibit we're working on
creating and a timeline that we can have all of
our guests follow our history as we know our history
and as we live it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
What would be an example of one of the pieces
of memorabilia on display at the Sarpee County Museum during
this time.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Well, we have some of the original documents from when
the church was organized. The current church building we house
the original church records back to eighteen fifty. It's quite
interesting to read what they did on the night of
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their organization, who was there, what they decided to do.
It's also interesting that this book contains a bit of
a gloss tree where we have an English name and
then the word opposite is the same meaning and word
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of the Indian language that these people were working with.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's fascinating. And as Betty Kieran, who's our guest here,
church clerk and historian from First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue
with us on community matters, as she noted earlier in
this conversation, this First Presbyterian church was founded by missionaries
to be able to meet with the native tribes in
the area. Now, this event on Thursday, August fourteenth is
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coming up during a big week in Bellevue called Arrows
to Aerospace. Right, can you give us some idea what
that week is about and how that relates to First
Presbyterian Church.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, this is a time when the entire community celebrates
its beginning. Of our early settlers were some of those
who came to the missionaries to the Native Americans. And
as the community grew, then we became home to Offit
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Air Force Base. So our history encompasses that the history
of America from the time of the Native Americans until
now the latest of military might, and with aerospace history
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that we all live and read about.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's fascinating Arrows to Aerospace. I love that name. And
that week is coming up, that the whole week there
in Bellevue. There's events on that weekend that follows this
event on Thursday, August fourteenth. Again, it's at five o'clock
that day at the Old Presbyterian Church location, Old Town Bellevue,
two zero zero two Franklin Street. Betty will be out there,
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other dignitaries from the church and the community there to
celebrate the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary First Presbyterian
Church of Bellevue. Betty Kieran is the church clerk and
historian there. Betty, thank you so much for sharing some
of the details of this wonderful event in the history
of this church, and thank you so much for telling
us about it on community Matters.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Thank you for having us, Thank.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You so much for being with us on community matters.
This week in and around Omaha, the headlines related to
illegal immigration and operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or
ICE have been inescapable. We've talked about it recently on
news radio eleven ten KFAB with a couple of elected representatives,
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including Republican Governor Jim Pillen, And in just a few
minutes you'll hear a conversation with Omaha's Democrat Mayor John Ewing,
But first a bit of my conversation on the subject
with Governor Pillen. The arrest of two MS thirteen gang
members here in your state has got you praising a
group called the Fusion Center. What can you tell us
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about the Nebraska Fusion Center.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Well, what I can tell you that we're really, really excited.
I visited with Colonel Will yesterday, our new colonel of the
Nebraska State Patrol. The work of our Nebraska State Patrol,
gave intelligence, got identified this terrorist criminal that's the top
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one hundred wante even in l Salvador for many murders,
was let go at the border several years ago, detained
and let go and he finds his way into Omaha.
Nebraska is so partnering with I got him identified, got
him arrested, took a little over twenty four hours, lots
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of extraordinary works, and it's exactly the way it's worked.
We've been talking about it for six months with the
President and my directives with our State Patrol that we're
partnering and highest calling government is keep us safe, and
that's what we're doing. And that's just a beautiful example
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of getting when the border's not secure. The last four years,
I've been to the border three times. There are really
really bad people that have came across. They've infiltrated, yes,
even to Nebraska, yes, even to Omaha. Yes, even to
gural communities in our state. And we have to get
them out to secure our state and make our communities safe.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Governor, what do we know, proud of our race work.
What do we know about these these gang members? As
you noted one of these guys wanted for five murders
and his native l Salvador. They're in the country illegally,
they're here in Omaha or several years as the HSI
Homeland Security Investigative Team Assistant Special Agent in Charge set
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What do we know about what they've been doing in Nebraska,
whether there are more of them, and what the public
can do to keep out a vigilant watch.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Well, I think that what's really important, and it's a
great question because many times we the public can think
that there's nothing we can do. Well we can when
something doesn't make sense, please call, Please call the state patrol,
Please call the city, Please call the county. Please call
it blue. Our brothers and sisters that risk everything they
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have to keep us safe, please call. Please reach out,
because if something doesn't make sense, most likely it doesn't,
and it's really really important all of us can keep
an eye out because the activity is here. So you know,
Secretary Nome reached out. We're going to have a conversation today.
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I know that there is a lot of work to
be done. It's incredibly important that we have all of
our men and women in blue across the state, with
their eyes wide open, do a great truro work. I
would encourage all listeners when you see a policeman, when
you walk or pary and see a policeman, please take
a minute, put your hand out and shake it and
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say thank you, thank you for risking, thank you for
the call of public service to help us. Can guarantee
you get a great, big smile.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I want to read a quote from a state senator
from Omaha, Megan Hunt, of the Nebraska Unicamer, who said,
blank Ice and anyone who helps them always be ready
to stand between an Ice gestapo thug and their target.
Business owners, know your rights and never let ice in
no matter what. Is this a fair comment from someone
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who's trying to help the public stand in the way
of law enforcement doing their job and maybe get between
them and a murderous gang member from El Salvador. Is
this is this something that we should be hearing.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Anybody that make a comment like that must have been
under some severe undue influence that would alter their state
of mind. That kind of a comment is nothing, nothing
but an incitement to criminal activity. I condemn it. It's horrible.
The highest calling of government is keep us safe. But
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absolutely mind bogging.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Are you concerned that the mayor of Omaha uh was
asking out loud why would Ice have any interest in
Omaha that he clearly didn't know that this high value
target was in the community.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Yeah, I think that my my. You know, again, highest
calling a government doesn't matter what what color vest you wear,
is to keep us safe. We have to deal with reality.
If somebody doesn't want to deal with reality, that's our problem.
I'm pragmatic. I deal with reality black and white. We
have a criminal problem, and we're going to keep we
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are going to keep our people safe safe, and you know,
with all due respect, you know, as governor Nebraska, that's
my job and I'm not going to worry about what
one mayre thinks or doesn't think.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
With Jim Rose there. That was a bit of my
conversation with Governor Jim Pillen from kfab's Morning News. Recently,
they also talked with Mayor John Ewing on the same subject.
Here's the regular host of that program, Gary Sademayer.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
We were interested in your view on the Ice arrests
Sarah Omaha last week and the and the revelation that
the primary target was wanted for five murders and l
Salvador and MS thirteen King Ben as he was described
right here living among us. What was your view of
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that operation?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Sure? Well, first of all, I think it's important to
give credit to the Douglas County sheriff deputy who solve
the MS thirteen information and then contacted the state Patrol
and Ice who actually then made the of rest to
keep excuse me, remove violent criminals from our community. So
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that's what I've said all along is I believe we
should be always looking to keep the people of Omaha
safe and remove violent offenders from our community.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Do you have a policy relative to the City of
Omaha and the Omaha Police Department regarding people like that
who may be living in our mets. I know that
the official policy is that we're not going around asking
people their for their citizenship status and so on. But
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you've got to be concerned. I would think, as mayor
that that there's more than one of these guys around Omaha.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Oh sure, obviously, and that's why we have gained units
and intelligence units to try and be able to find
those individuals and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies as
well to make sure we keep the people of Omaha safe.
And our police department has done a great job, in
my opinion, of helping to find those individuals as well
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in the past, and they will continue to do that
in the future.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Visiting with John Ewing, Mayor of Omaha, John, it's critically important,
I think, to the confidence that the people have in
your administration that this becomes a high priority. This guy
did not arrive in Omaha on your watch by any
means previous mayor's administration. Does this heighten your concern and
does this change any of your priorities relative to finding
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these people? I mean, clearly, if you'd known that he
was here and you were mayor when he arrived, you
would have managed to get him locked up when he
was here. How do you find out whether these people
are here?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Well, I think that's why you have to have cooperative
relationships with other law enforcement agencies. And then, as I mentioned,
I believe our game unit does a great job with
the game people in our community of finding out who
is actually involved in violent crimes. That's why we have
such a low crime rate here and that's why we're
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able to reduce some of the issues that you see
in other major cities. So I believe we're doing a
great job with that. In any time we have these
opportunities to remove people from our community, I think we
have to do everything we can as a law enforcement agency,
as well as cooperating with the other agencies that are
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engaged with finding these violent criminals as well.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
I'm interested to John in Europe in your overall viewed,
not just with these MS thirteen types, but I go
back to I believe it was a night of the
election when you were on the MSNBC and said we're
not afraid Donald Trump. They were talking about immigration. We
had a pretty large operation over there at Glen Valley
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Foods a month or so ago. We've had isolated other
incidents here, most recently the Fernando's restaurant subpoena from Homeland Security.
Do you have heartburn about what's happening here in our
city relative to folks who may be here illegally?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Why? I have heartburned because I believe when we look
at some of the individuals who are non violent people
working in our community, I believe we should have a
comprehensive immigration policy at the federal level that gives those
people an opportunity to be able to work legitimately in
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our community. I certainly don't condone people taking and having
false identification or stilling people's identity or social security numbers.
That's why I believe it's important that Congress do their
job in that area so that people can work and
contribute to our community.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Has this changed your overall attitude about ICE and cooperation
with ICE? Given the depth of this guy's criminal behavior.
I mean, rank and filed illegal immigrants in Omaha one thing,
But a guy with a record like that who was
clearly a threat to society. Has this changed your overall
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approach to cooperating with ICE.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
No, because we've always cooperated with ICE, going all the
way back to when I was on the Omaha Police Department.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Thanks may I appreciate the time this morning, and.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
We'll do it okay. Thank you and have a great day.
Guide you too.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
That's Omaha Mayor John Ewing.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Scott for Heats and thank you so much for
being a part of our program this week. There's a
great annual event coming up this Saturday, July twenty sixth.
That's also an annual fundraiser for the Carter Lake Fire Department.
We've got a member of that department with us here.
Nate Bradburn is training officer with the Carter Lake Fire Department,
and we'll be rocking out this Saturday. Hey, Nate, thanks
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a lot for being in here.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Thanks for having me Scott, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So let's talk first about what we're doing this Saturday.
Then we'll talk about why we're doing it. What's going on.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
So we are having our annual concert. We've got three bands.
A Beer Garden starts at four and Zip right around ten.
We're going to try and stretch a little bit longer
and give our headliner a little more time. And then
right after that, once the band ends, fireworks start and
it is an amazing firework show.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh, very cool. So the band's playing here, not members,
and maybe there are a few of the carter it's
not the carter Lake Fire Department going out there going hey,
sometimes you put down the hoses and pick up the guitars.
Here we go. You're gonna like this one.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No, Actually open up with on the Ledge, which is
a local carter Lake band, and then we go to
someone that's probably a little more known here in Omaha,
High Heel.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, and then our headliner and High Heel do such
a great show. They are they she's amazing. But a
lot of people don't know is her and I dated
back in high school. Yeah, they don't know that because
I don't think it's true.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That's correct, that's quick. However, she did hit me with
that last year on stage at the concert, and I
turned it bright red. It was fun. So we're gonna
keep that going this year. But our headliner, which we're
really excited about this year, is pet Rock.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh yeah, great stuff from the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, yeah, yeah, we got we got very lucky.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, that's great. So you got some really fun party
bands out there. It's going to be a great atmosphere. Sure,
the weather is going to be perfect here. And what
do people need to do in advance to be able
to get tickets for this concert coming up this Saturday?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No tickets. It is one hundred percent free to the public.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know, it's a fundraiser, right, correct.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So that all the funds come from the beer garden.
And we have an awesome sponsor. Our partner is Prairie
Flower Casino, right, And so the Punker tribe in Nebraska
has been very good to us since they are in
Carter Lake. They've partnered with us all four years now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So whatever you have to drink, and I think they'll
probably be food there as well.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Right, So we do have food trucks. It's they switch
it up every year. So I couldn't even tell you
what the food is this year, but I did hear
that they're going to have more food trucks this year.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Right, all right, So whatever you eat and drink is
on you. But just to come in there and enjoy
the concert. Completely free community event.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Completely free community event.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Where is this this Saturday?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
So it's at seventeenth and Q, which is the Carter
Lake Ballfields. We block off a big section of the Street,
and we got a big stage and we have the
best sound guy, Charlie Couch. Anybody who knows Charlie, he's
the best sound guy in the region. So we are
very blessed that a lot of people have joined in
in this this project.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Seventeenth and Q, Carter Lake, carter Lake, yep. So not
not South Omaha.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, I don't go there. You'll be really disappointing you.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
To go there. It's a nice little community there, kind
of down the hill from South High School. But in
Carter Lake, that's where the music's going to be. Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
In carter Lake. Seventeenth and Avenue Q, y all right.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So so for those of us who spend a little
time coming around carter Lake Airport golf course, you know
all that stuff, Right, where's seventeenth So it would be
in the Locust.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Okay, So if you were to come in on Locust,
you would take a rite on thirteenth, follow it all
the way down to Avenue Q, take another rite and
you'll end up at seventh. At seventeenth and Avenue Q,
it's all street parking, So drive around in the neighborhoods
until you find a place to park.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
All right, Cool? And there might be some enterprising young
people saying you can park in our yard for five bucks.
Then you pay them five dollars and come back later
and realize those kids don't live at that house.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Potentially, Yes, yes, there's always.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That telling what you might find there. So about seventeenth
and Avenue Q in Carter Lake, you said it starts
at four o'clock this Saturday, right.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So it starts at four o'clock. The beer garden does
open at one, right, and prior to all the festivities,
we do have a parade that starts at eleven, and
there is a festival down in the ballfields from roughly
about twelve thirty till four. So there's something going on
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all day long.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
All the details at rockthebootconcert dot com. Rockthebootconcert dot com.
We're talking here with Nate Bradburn, training officer with the
Carterlake Fire Department. This is a fundraising event for the
Carter Lake Fire Department. So how does this event help
out the team there Carter Lake.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So every year we try and kind of get the
nice to have. Unfortunately, this year it's not going to
be part of the nice to haves. There's only so
much money to go around. There's only so much money
in the budget, and all of our bunker gear is
coming of age, so they last about ten years and
then they have to be replaced. So we have about
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thirty five sets of bunker gear that need to replaced
at about five thousand dollars per set. What is bunker gear,
so that would be what the fire uniform that we
wear into a fire. We are not replacing our helmets
or our boots because those are basically new, but we
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do have to replace the coat and the pants, and
so we're able to do with grants and what the
city is offering us, we're able to do about five
sets per quarter. But like I said, we're in a
position where pretty much the money that we make is
going to fund the rest of it. We normally try
not to fund the stuff that the city normally pays for,
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but in the situation, we've made the decision that that's
what we're going to do with it this show.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So there would be people that say, like, well, how
come the taxes from Carter Lake don't go to you know,
take care of the fire department with whatever they.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Need, because fire gear and fire equipment is very expensive
to give you an example, if you wanted to get
a brand new ladder truck, you're talking about three and
a half million dollars. Wow, So okay, so then we
spend a lot of money. We don't make any money
right right.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And then some people say like, well, you guys are
close enough to Almaha and Council Bluffs, can't their teams
just come in there and help you guys out.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So we do have mutual aid agreements and occasionally Omaha
will come in if it's if it's a large normally
if it's an industrial fire or something like that. But
we have a pretty skilled fire department. For example, myself
and our assistant chief we both went through Firefighter one,
Firefighter two, Instructor one together. We both went through EMT
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class together. So we have six paramedics. I mean, there's
you name it. We have guys that have red cards
so they can go do wild one firefighting. We have
a good set of skills in our department.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Sure, and you know, if what you're paying for as
a taxpayer in Carter Lake is the insurance policy, hopefully
you never need it, but you do want to pay
you your few bucks a month, you know, several hour
money dollars a year to have that insurance policy. In
case your house catches on fire, you want the guys
in the community to get there as quickly as possible.
(07:37):
Right to protect your home, to protect your belongings, to
protect your family. And yeah, you can get for some
of the larger fires, something gets a little crazy, Omaha
Council Bluffs can come out there and help. But if
your house catches on fire, you know down there somewhere
off of Tenth and Locusts or whatever, you want that
team there as quickly as possible. That's what you're paying
for with all this, correct, and you want them to
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be tected too.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right. The important thing that people need to understand is
a fire department A is required by law for a municipality,
and the faster the response time, the better the equipment,
the better trained your fire department is, the cheaper your insurances.
So Carter Lake has one of the lowest ISO ratings
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for a quote unquote volunteer department. Even though we're not
really a volunteer department anymore, we're still federally considered a
volunteer department.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So since carter Lake part of its Nebraska part of
its Iowa I don't know how that works for the
town and the lake area and all that like is
they're like, hey, sorry, your fire is right there on
the other side of where our juris jurisdiction ends the
Carter Lake, Iowa guys are gonna have to handle this.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
See, That's the nice thing is we work really well
with Omaha. There's times when we'll get paged out for
a car accident that's technically an Omaha we handle it.
There's times that they'll get paged out for a fire
that's right on you know that happens to be in Iowa,
but it's right on the line and they might get
there first. But we don't play jurisdiction. I mean, at
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the end of the day, everybody's mission is, you know,
put out fires and save lives.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
What about the airport who gets called out there? I
know they've got some of their own people.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So the airport does have a fire department, but Omaha
has a firehouse that's basically right next door.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
All right, So this is how many members of the
team were we talking about with It's rder like fire department.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Fire members we have, so we do fire and ems,
sure we have I just counted the other day. We
have twenty members and of the twenty, all but four
are fire so we have four that are strictly ems only.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Right, So this fundraiser, Rock the Boot is a great time,
a wonderful community event and also helping raise some money
for essential department needs. And that safety gear you mentioned,
I'm sure you know training. You're the training officer there.
You know some of what you guys get. What you're
able to do there with your team here is also
provided with this annual event, and we got some great
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music to be able to do it. Food, beer garden,
all kinds of fun. So one more time here Nate
tell people to come this Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Saturday Night music starts today too, right right. The music
starts at four pm, beer garden opens at one. Musical
ends sometime between ten and ten thirty yet to be determined.
We'll see how that works out. And as soon as
the music ends, we put on a really good firework show.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, coolky deal and pet rock and d Yeah, it's
going to be great. It's all at Rockthebootconcert dot com.
Rockthebootconcert dot Com is the website this annual event. There
fundraiser for the Carter Lake Fire Department Training officer with
that department, Nate Bradburn, Thank you so much for what
you're doing for our community of Carter Lake and thanks
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a lot for telling us about it on Community Matters.
Thanks guys, I appreciate it you're listening to Community Matters.
And up next in the program, we welcome the clerk
and historian for First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue here to
Community Matters. Betty Kuran is here and Betty, it's great
to have you on the show.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
This is an amazing anniversary coming up this year and
a really fun event to celebrate the one hundred and
seventy fifth anniversary First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. Tell me
about what's happening on Thursday, August fourteenth to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well. On that we will be at the Old Presbyterian Church,
which is in Old Town Bellevue at five o'clock and
we'll have a short ceremony to begin our activities for
this celebration.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's going to be a really nice time, So people
get together at the old Church. Do people know where
that is there at Old Town Bellevue. Where is it?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
It's a twenty to zero zero two Franklin, which is
one of our old town streets.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, so this is on Thursday, August fourteenth. What are
the hours on this event and what's happening that day.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It'll be a short event at five o'clock till about
five point thirty, at which time we'll have various government officials,
state and local, some people from the congregation, and we
will be reviewing where we've come. We have a long
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history from eighteen fifty, even before the state was actually
organized as a state, Bellevue had the early settlers, business people,
There were missionaries to the Native Americans living in the area.
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And we'll just have a little review to celebrate this
milestone that we have.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How was it that you came to be the historian
for First Presbyterian of Bellevue.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
By default, I've been the Clerk of Session, which is
really the secretary of the church board for nearly twenty years.
I've been a member of the congregation for fifty years,
and by just living and breathing the history that we
feel in our congregation, we are extremely blessed that in
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one hundreds and seventy five years we can continue to
carry the goals and the spirits of the first settlers
and the first organizers.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
How long have you been a part of this church, Betty?
Did you grow up within this church?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
I was led to this church through friends. I've been
a member now for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Okay, that's certainly long enough. That's a good run there
and still going as church church clerk and historian at
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. The event to celebrate the
one hundred seventy one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary is
coming up on Thursday, August fourteenth. They're in old Town
Bellevue at the old location for First Presbyterian. Do you
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have to be a member of the church to be
there or is this open to everybody?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Absolutely not. It's open and we encourage everyone from the community,
the state, whoever wants to come and experience this. They're welcome.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And does it cost anything to be a part of this,
Oh absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
We welcome everyone as our guests. After the ceremony at
the church, we will have a reception and an exhibit
of church artifacts at the Starbey County Museum. And that's
just located at twenty four two Clay Street, just a
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short distance from the church.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Okay, excellent, and that's going to be there for about
six months or so, right to honor this big anniversary.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yes, it will be a continuing exhibit we're working on
creating and a timeline that we can have all of
our guests follow our history as we know our history
and as we live it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
What would be an example of one of the pieces
of memorabilia on display at the Sarpee County Museum during
this time.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Well, we have some of the original documents from when
the church was organized. The current church building we house
the original church records back to eighteen fifty. It's quite
interesting to read what they did on the night of
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their organization, who was there, what they decided to do.
It's also interesting that this book contains a bit of
a gloss tree where we have an English name and
then the word opposite is the same meaning and word
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of the Indian language that these people were working with.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That's fascinating. And as Betty Kieran, who's our guest here,
church clerk and historian from First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue
with us on community matters, as she noted earlier in
this conversation, this First Presbyterian church was founded by missionaries
to be able to meet with the native tribes in
the area. Now, this event on Thursday, August fourteenth is
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coming up during a big week in Bellevue called Arrows
to Aerospace. Right, can you give us some idea what
that week is about and how that relates to First
Presbyterian Church.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, this is a time when the entire community celebrates
its beginning. Of our early settlers were some of those
who came to the missionaries to the Native Americans. And
as the community grew, then we became home to Offit
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Air Force Base. So our history encompasses that the history
of America from the time of the Native Americans until
now the latest of military might, and with aerospace history
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that we all live and read about.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's fascinating Arrows to Aerospace. I love that name. And
that week is coming up, that the whole week there
in Bellevue. There's events on that weekend that follows this
event on Thursday, August fourteenth. Again, it's at five o'clock
that day at the Old Presbyterian Church location, Old Town Bellevue,
two zero zero two Franklin Street. Betty will be out there,
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other dignitaries from the church and the community there to
celebrate the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary First Presbyterian
Church of Bellevue. Betty Kieran is the church clerk and
historian there. Betty, thank you so much for sharing some
of the details of this wonderful event in the history
of this church, and thank you so much for telling
us about it on community Matters.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Thank you for having us, Thank.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You so much for being with us on community matters.
This week in and around Omaha, the headlines related to
illegal immigration and operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or
ICE have been inescapable. We've talked about it recently on
news radio eleven ten KFAB with a couple of elected representatives,
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including Republican Governor Jim Pillen, And in just a few
minutes you'll hear a conversation with Omaha's Democrat Mayor John Ewing,
But first a bit of my conversation on the subject
with Governor Pillen. The arrest of two MS thirteen gang
members here in your state has got you praising a
group called the Fusion Center. What can you tell us
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about the Nebraska Fusion Center.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Well, what I can tell you that we're really, really excited.
I visited with Colonel Will yesterday, our new colonel of the
Nebraska State Patrol. The work of our Nebraska State Patrol,
gave intelligence, got identified this terrorist criminal that's the top
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one hundred wante even in l Salvador for many murders,
was let go at the border several years ago, detained
and let go and he finds his way into Omaha.
Nebraska is so partnering with I got him identified, got
him arrested, took a little over twenty four hours, lots
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of extraordinary works, and it's exactly the way it's worked.
We've been talking about it for six months with the
President and my directives with our State Patrol that we're
partnering and highest calling government is keep us safe, and
that's what we're doing. And that's just a beautiful example
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of getting when the border's not secure. The last four years,
I've been to the border three times. There are really
really bad people that have came across. They've infiltrated, yes,
even to Nebraska, yes, even to Omaha. Yes, even to
gural communities in our state. And we have to get
them out to secure our state and make our communities safe.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Governor, what do we know, proud of our race work.
What do we know about these these gang members? As
you noted one of these guys wanted for five murders
and his native l Salvador. They're in the country illegally,
they're here in Omaha or several years as the HSI
Homeland Security Investigative Team Assistant Special Agent in Charge set
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What do we know about what they've been doing in Nebraska,
whether there are more of them, and what the public
can do to keep out a vigilant watch.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Well, I think that what's really important, and it's a
great question because many times we the public can think
that there's nothing we can do. Well we can when
something doesn't make sense, please call, Please call the state patrol,
Please call the city, Please call the county. Please call
it blue. Our brothers and sisters that risk everything they
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have to keep us safe, please call. Please reach out,
because if something doesn't make sense, most likely it doesn't,
and it's really really important all of us can keep
an eye out because the activity is here. So you know,
Secretary Nome reached out. We're going to have a conversation today.
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I know that there is a lot of work to
be done. It's incredibly important that we have all of
our men and women in blue across the state, with
their eyes wide open, do a great truro work. I
would encourage all listeners when you see a policeman, when
you walk or pary and see a policeman, please take
a minute, put your hand out and shake it and
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say thank you, thank you for risking, thank you for
the call of public service to help us. Can guarantee
you get a great, big smile.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I want to read a quote from a state senator
from Omaha, Megan Hunt, of the Nebraska Unicamer, who said,
blank Ice and anyone who helps them always be ready
to stand between an Ice gestapo thug and their target.
Business owners, know your rights and never let ice in
no matter what. Is this a fair comment from someone
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who's trying to help the public stand in the way
of law enforcement doing their job and maybe get between
them and a murderous gang member from El Salvador. Is
this is this something that we should be hearing.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Anybody that make a comment like that must have been
under some severe undue influence that would alter their state
of mind. That kind of a comment is nothing, nothing
but an incitement to criminal activity. I condemn it. It's horrible.
The highest calling of government is keep us safe. But
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absolutely mind bogging.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Are you concerned that the mayor of Omaha uh was
asking out loud why would Ice have any interest in
Omaha that he clearly didn't know that this high value
target was in the community.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Yeah, I think that my my. You know, again, highest
calling a government doesn't matter what what color vest you wear,
is to keep us safe. We have to deal with reality.
If somebody doesn't want to deal with reality, that's our problem.
I'm pragmatic. I deal with reality black and white. We
have a criminal problem, and we're going to keep we
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are going to keep our people safe safe, and you know,
with all due respect, you know, as governor Nebraska, that's
my job and I'm not going to worry about what
one mayre thinks or doesn't think.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
With Jim Rose there. That was a bit of my
conversation with Governor Jim Pillen from kfab's Morning News. Recently,
they also talked with Mayor John Ewing on the same subject.
Here's the regular host of that program, Gary Sademayer.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
We were interested in your view on the Ice arrests
Sarah Omaha last week and the and the revelation that
the primary target was wanted for five murders and l
Salvador and MS thirteen King Ben as he was described
right here living among us. What was your view of
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that operation?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Sure? Well, first of all, I think it's important to
give credit to the Douglas County sheriff deputy who solve
the MS thirteen information and then contacted the state Patrol
and Ice who actually then made the of rest to
keep excuse me, remove violent criminals from our community. So
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that's what I've said all along is I believe we
should be always looking to keep the people of Omaha
safe and remove violent offenders from our community.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Do you have a policy relative to the City of
Omaha and the Omaha Police Department regarding people like that
who may be living in our mets. I know that
the official policy is that we're not going around asking
people their for their citizenship status and so on. But
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you've got to be concerned. I would think, as mayor
that that there's more than one of these guys around Omaha.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Oh sure, obviously, and that's why we have gained units
and intelligence units to try and be able to find
those individuals and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies as
well to make sure we keep the people of Omaha safe.
And our police department has done a great job, in
my opinion, of helping to find those individuals as well
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in the past, and they will continue to do that
in the future.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Visiting with John Ewing, Mayor of Omaha, John, it's critically important,
I think, to the confidence that the people have in
your administration that this becomes a high priority. This guy
did not arrive in Omaha on your watch by any
means previous mayor's administration. Does this heighten your concern and
does this change any of your priorities relative to finding
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these people? I mean, clearly, if you'd known that he
was here and you were mayor when he arrived, you
would have managed to get him locked up when he
was here. How do you find out whether these people
are here?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Well, I think that's why you have to have cooperative
relationships with other law enforcement agencies. And then, as I mentioned,
I believe our game unit does a great job with
the game people in our community of finding out who
is actually involved in violent crimes. That's why we have
such a low crime rate here and that's why we're
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able to reduce some of the issues that you see
in other major cities. So I believe we're doing a
great job with that. In any time we have these
opportunities to remove people from our community, I think we
have to do everything we can as a law enforcement agency,
as well as cooperating with the other agencies that are
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engaged with finding these violent criminals as well.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
I'm interested to John in Europe in your overall viewed,
not just with these MS thirteen types, but I go
back to I believe it was a night of the
election when you were on the MSNBC and said we're
not afraid Donald Trump. They were talking about immigration. We
had a pretty large operation over there at Glen Valley
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Foods a month or so ago. We've had isolated other
incidents here, most recently the Fernando's restaurant subpoena from Homeland Security.
Do you have heartburn about what's happening here in our
city relative to folks who may be here illegally?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Why? I have heartburned because I believe when we look
at some of the individuals who are non violent people
working in our community, I believe we should have a
comprehensive immigration policy at the federal level that gives those
people an opportunity to be able to work legitimately in
(28:45):
our community. I certainly don't condone people taking and having
false identification or stilling people's identity or social security numbers.
That's why I believe it's important that Congress do their
job in that area so that people can work and
contribute to our community.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Has this changed your overall attitude about ICE and cooperation
with ICE? Given the depth of this guy's criminal behavior.
I mean, rank and filed illegal immigrants in Omaha one thing,
But a guy with a record like that who was
clearly a threat to society. Has this changed your overall
(29:24):
approach to cooperating with ICE.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
No, because we've always cooperated with ICE, going all the
way back to when I was on the Omaha Police Department.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Thanks may I appreciate the time this morning, and.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
We'll do it okay. Thank you and have a great day.
Guide you too.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
That's Omaha Mayor John Ewing.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
This has been Community Matters, a weekly public affairs special
on Cat one O three. Omaha's Greatest Hits ninety nine
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