ACE presents refund check to city

John Hehnke, soon-to-be chair person of the Public Alliance for Community Energy-or ACE-presented the city with a refund check from the group at Tuesday's city council meeting. ACE is a community owned natural gas supplier.

"I would like to take this moment to return some money back to the community," Hehnke said.

ACE returned a total of $100,000 to all its member communities this year. Sidney received almost $7,000 of this money. Past refunds have been used for various community betterment projects.

"Lately we've been using it for improvements and stocking at the Legion Park pond, and w...