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Jill Lewis’ hoop dreams turned into hoop reams.

As in reams of court documents, jammed into six three-ring binders sitting on lawyers’ tables in a Douglas County courtroom.

As in 40 exhibits, three attorneys, one judge and five hours of testimony over one thing: the basketball pole that Lewis and her three sons cemented into the ground next to their driveway near 171st and Pacific Streets.

A hoop on a driveway?

Neighbors said no way. . .

The people who live near 166th and Washington streets are frustrated after recent burglaries in their neighborhood.

 Mark and Liza Bazis know all too well how thieves strike in just seconds.

Read more: http://www.ketv.com/news/29780679/detail.html#ixzz1dtq29Qmz

If you have been out in the Mission Hills Neighborhood early morning or after dark in the last week you surely have noticed the entrance lighting.  Your Board is very pleased with the results of their decision to spend the money to bring back lighting to the entrances.  Your comments regarding the lighting are welcome here.

It is not too early to start to plan for holiday lighting at the entrances!  Those winter winds and cold temps will be upon us sooner than we realize. As a part of the lighting work, electrical outlets were installed at all eight bell towers and three of the four medians.  Your Board is calling for volunteers and a committee chairman from among Mission Hills Homeowners to plan and install Holiday Lighting at all four Mission Hills Entrances.  Perhaps each of the four entrances can be assigned to volunteer groups from various Mission Hills streets!

Mission Hills Homeowner, Doug Hartman came across and donated several dozen strands of Christmas lights to the Association and we will purchase other lights as needed.  One suggestion is to place a large red Christmas bow on each of the eight bells since they are now lit.

We welcome all homeowners and family members to volunteer for this fun project.  If you are interested in volunteering please send an email to the Mission Hills Board of Directors at boardofdirectors@missionhillsomaha.com.  Please provide your name(s), address, contact phone number and state that you are willing to volunteer either as a committee member or the chairman of the Holiday Decorating Committee.

Your board is considering making this a Mission Hills social event with perhaps food and drinks, after the decorating is completed and a lighting ceremony is held.  Your ideas as to how to go about organizing this Mission Hills Project are welcome!

Please let us hear from you by October 21st so we have time to plan and install the decorations and lighting!

The addition of the fields to an otherwise utilitarian bond issue has polarized community opinion on the question: Are they a luxury or a necessity?

Dave Anderson, the school board president, said the fields have become “a lightning rod” for criticism. . .”

Turf could trip up bond issue – Omaha.com

Scott Anderson with Fellow Jebber's Crew Member

How do you get from here to there?  That was the question for Scott Anderson and his crew of three from Jebber’s Contracting, Inc., as he viewed the situation at the Y Street Entrance of Mission Hills Omaha this Thursday morning. 

The task at hand was to run an underground power conduit from an OPPD power pedestal in the rear far north side of Jim & Linda Vulku’s back yard (corner of 167^th Ave & Y Street) across to the north bell tower at Y Street and from there up into the median and then down and across, or again, under the street,  to the south Y Street bell tower, without wreaking havoc with the landscaping in either the Vulku’s yard or the Mission Hills flower beds – A total distance of approximately 175 Ft.  At the same time a second, smaller conduit, was to be added to the larger, as it passed under Y Street to the south side.

Vermeer D16 x 20A "Navigator" Self-Contained Directional Boring Machine

Well, if you are Scott Anderson, a twelve-year veteran crew chief with Jebber’s Contracting, Inc., it’s a fairly easy task.  You use a Vermeer D16 x 20A “Navigator” Self-Contained Directional Boring Machine to do the underground boring along with a lot of back-breaking hand-shoveling by all four crew members.

The Jebber’s crew started boring for underground power lines at the last Mission Hills entrance today.  Since Monday this week, the four member crew had already completed work at the Q, S and V Street entrances.

With a quick turn of a key the Vermeer Boring Machine started and with one hand Scott directed the ten foot machine down from the trailer and into place at the median facing north.  A starter hole had been hand-dug already and Scott directed the sonar equipped boring head into the hole.  After hooking up a water supply from a 500 gallon tank on the nearby trailer and a quick change of four ordinary C-cell batteries in the sonar equiped boring head, Scott began to move the levers that directed the boring head down and forward into the ground and under the north side entrance street. 

Guided By Sonar

Guided by sonar readings on a small monitor mounted on the boring machine next to the operator’s chair, Mr. Anderson continued to ease the boring head forward as additional boring tubes were automatically added as the head moved forward.  Water was pumped out of the boring head periodically to cool the boring head and make for an easier path for the boring head through the hard clay soil.   In less than ten minutes the machine had reached the first hand-dug hole on the north side of the street.  After less than twenty additional minutes the boring head had reached its final target hole next to the power pedestal.  The power conduit was hooked to the boring head and the process was reversed to move the conduit back through the ground to the bell tower.  The process was repeated for the south bell tower as the boring machine was moved to the north side of the median.

Simple as that and the conduit was in place

Simple as that, and the conduit was in place through which the full power electrical wire would be run by Omaha Electric Company electricians to hook into the meter boxes.  Once all the connections are complete and OPPD installs the meters and provides power to them, the entrance signs and bell towers will be illuminated.

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Omaha Electric Company Starts Entrance Lighting Work at Y St Entrance

Once OPPD installed the new power sub-pedestal at the Q Street entrance it did not take very long for Omaha Electric Company (ECO) to start work on the installation of electrical boxes and fixtures.  Work began at the Y Street entrance where a new power meter, electrical boxes and a power outlet were being installed by Brian Watson, an electrician with ECO

Boring for power and low voltage lines under the street at each entrance will start tomorrow and will take a few days to completed.  Both sides of all entrances will have an electrical outlet installed, including one in each median except the S Street entrance median.  This will enable holiday lighting to be put up in December.  The Board will be looking for volunteers to plan and install these new holiday lights.  Contact a board member if you are interested in helping.

Watch for future updates and photos here as work on the lighting project progresses.

See Previous Post regarding decision to install entrance lights.

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