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The lifestyle of rural Nebraska often includes people wearing multiple hats. The shop mechanic might be a board member in a non-profit organization, a “big-brother” in a mentoring program, and a pastor of a country church.

One such example of multiple hats and a wealth of history was recently promoted to a national board.

Dan Carlson is known by any of several hats. He is a writer and columnist, weather forecaster with his own page and serves as pastor to the Immanuel Lutheran Church at Weyerts and United Church of the Plains in Dalton.

Recently his “hat collection” expanded to incl...