KLKN-TV
Advocates and opposers testify about wind turbine regulations
Proposed amendment would increase maximum allowed wind turbine decibel noise, decrease minimum distance from private property.
February 11, 2021 7:55 pm
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – On Thursday, proponents and opposers of an amendment that would cut back on wind turbine regulations testified in front of the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners.
The proposed amendment to the Lancaster County Zoning Regulations would increase the maximum amount of wind turbine noise permitted by the county to 42 decibels. Currently, the county allows a max 40 decibels of turbine noise during the day (7 am to 10 pm) and a max 37 decibels at night (10 pm to 7 am).
She kept them.
They are there somewhere in a box in a Houston garage â a card and a badge that declare Diane Parks a Polio Pioneer.
Parks is 74 now, a mother of three and a grandmother to six. She and her husband moved from Lincoln after college and eventually settled in the big oil city down south.
She remembers getting those shots back in Lincoln in 1955, one of millions of schoolchildren across the country who lined up for the Salk vaccination at the height of the polio epidemic.
She was 8. A student at Blessed Sacrament on Lake Street.
âI think probably most of the kids in my second-grade class did it,â Parks said. âThey stuffed as many kids in a car as they could and we drove to St. Teresaâs across town.â