NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - The pandemic has put a damper on many events. But, it couldn't take away Prom for Callaway and Arnold Public Schools.

The two had their annual combined High School Prom at the Callaway Community Center.

Students were treated to a catered dinner with salad, meat and potatoes.

Dozens of high schoolers enjoyed an event which is normally held in the spring, in the middle of the summer.

“When we went to Phase 3, we put a call into Loup Basin Health Department,” said Callaway Superintendent Bryon Hanson. “There’s a few things we needed to do to keep the kids safe. But, they told us we were good to go. I got a hold of Mr. Morgan in Arnold. We decided to push forward with putting this on for our kids.”

Various people and restaurants pitched in to make the night a success for the students.

Brady Public School hosts prom during the summer

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) -The Coronavirus pandemic has really thrown a wrench in a lot of plans since the early part of 2020.

Some of those events are now taking place. Friday night, Brady Public Schools was able to host their prom. They have had the gym partially set up since this spring and finished it this month.

“It’s well worth waiting for,” said Brady Public Schools’ Superintendent James McGown, “So we’re excited to be hosting the event and we’ve had to do some different things actually when we ended school this was partially set up so every day that I would come in in March, April and May I would walk through here and see the progress just halted and it was like the students had just left so it’s been tremendous to see this event to go on.”

McGown said they were excited to host it even though this year might look a little different than in years past.

“Parents, we had them congregate outside before we had them walk through,” said McGown. “We’re limiting the amount of people in the building we’re also taking names of all the people that did come in just in case there is something that has to happen that we need to report we’re doing our due diligence and then we also got our plan approved to have prom from West Central District Health Department.”

Instead of the traditional dancing, they had a comedian perform.