Valerie and Don Bellino to be Honored at 2017 MCF Reflection Ball

Midlands Community Foundation (midlandscommunity.org) is pleased to announce that Valerie and Don Bellino will receive the Reflection Award at the organization’s 2017 Reflection Ball on Jan. 21, 2017, at the Embassy Suites in La Vista. Each year Midlands Community Foundation honors an individual or individuals who have contributed significantly to Sarpy and Cass counties and the mission of the Foundation with its Reflection Award.

Valerie and Don currently own and operate several businesses including Bellino Properties which includes residential dwellings, farmland, and warehouses in Papillion and North Platte, apartments and commercial real estate; Bellino Fireworks which has hundreds of locations throughout Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas and Missouri; Jerzes Sports Bar and the City of Papillion’s Keno operation, Players Keno; Cornhusker and Safeway Cabs that operate in the Omaha and Lincoln areas; DVAL, an institutional food service company; and Nebraska Sluggers elite high school traveling baseball teams.

The Bellinos are members of the Omaha, Sarpy County and Ralston Chambers of Commerce, the National Fireworks Association and are sustaining members of the American Pyrotechnics Association. Through fireworks sales, the Bellinos have contributed millions of dollars to nonprofit and other community organizations. They annually donate fireworks displays for both Papillion and La Vista community celebrations. They also donate displays to Creighton University athletics.

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