Stories from Wednesday, May 22, 2002

Firefighters investigate the scene of this truck accident Tuesday morning five miles west of Hamlet. According to the Hayes Center Times-Republican, the driver walked away uninjured from the scene. The rig is owned by Alsbury Fertilizer of Parks. An accident report from the Nebraska State Patrol, whose troopers investigated the accident, was not available this morning...

BARTLEY -- One Twin Valley patron admonished committee members, "Shame on you! Go home, do your homework! Give us some other options!" Another thanked committee members for their commitment to the schools and urged others "to support the people who have done hours and hours of research" into a possible merger of Twin Valley and Republican Valley public schools...

Prairie winds blow across Nebraska Tuesday, with reports from McCook Municipal Airport of gusts in excess of 55 mph. Frenchman Valley Co-op reported that the Perry Grain facility west of McCook lost approximately 50 feet of roof and rafters in the high winds...

Red Willow County commissioners agreed Tuesday afternoon to purchase a digital camera package for bridge inspection reports. The three men also approved an agreement with the state for surveying services on a resurfacing project on Highway 83 north of McCook...

Walk up to the stone-finish kiosk, and a clear cover over the computer screen glides up and out of the way. A friendly voice says, "Welcome to the Memorial Park Cemetery Directory." The computer sheltered in the structure is a cemetery directory, and includes a listing of everyone buried in McCook's Memorial Cemetery. Computerizing the cemetery directory is the brainchild of Windy Prairie Systems Inc. of Indianola...

A McCook man has been cited for an incident in which he provided alcohol to a McCook teenage girl Sunday afternoon. According to McCook Police Chief Ike Brown an investigation took place after an ambulance was called to a residence in the 1300 block of West F for the 13 to 14-year old teen...

WOODLAND, Wash. -- Bernice A. Hummels, 93, died Monday (Jan. 14, 2002) at Battle Ground Nursing Home in Woodland, Wash. She was born Dec. 17. 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Parrott at Goodland, Kan. In 1924, she married Francis Hummels. Following his death, she received her beauticians license and operated her own beauty shop in Woodland for 20 years...

BEAVER CITY -- Steven Lee Smith, 49, died Monday (May 19, 2002) at his home in Grand Island. He was born Sept. 17, 1952, to Merlin and Carol (Thorn) Smith at McCook. He attended Beaver City Schools and worked for a number of people in the Beaver City area. He moved to Grand Island several years ago where he worked at the time of his death...

A sneeze, and one person's response to it, became the center of attention at a recent graduation in Iowa. It seems the school choir had planned to perform "The Lord's Prayer," a beautiful rendition of the prayer set in four-part harmony, best performed a cappela...

We have just received the news of the impending transfer of Father Nick Baker from the Crete parish to Indianola. It is with great pride to inform the Catholic parishioners of Indianola what a treasure they will soon recieve. Father Baker is kind, caring, and has a great sense of humor. Our loss is indeed your gain. May God bless you all for welcoming Father Baker to your community. You are all truely blessed...

10 Commandments to getting a job. 1. Education and Experence. 2. If interviews don't come after you give applications // put a ten spot on the application with a promise of another at the time of the interview. 3.Offer to work for free or at below minimum wage for the first two weeks. If they can not do that offer to give a gift to the person doing the hiring. This offsets the normal hiring practice of hiring family and drinking buddies over everyone else...

Much has been said about the poor voter turnout in the primary election earlier this month. A paltry twenty six percent or 2,060 Red Willow County residents cared enough to cast their votes on May 14th. But what is just as disheartening as the low voter turnout, is the lack of choice in candidates to vote for...

Wilbur Lee Larson was born to Lee R. and Mary Ann Larson on Dec. 11, 1914 in Lincoln County, Neb. Wilbur departed this life on May 19, 2002, at the Chase County Hospital in Imperial. Wilbur grew up on his family's farm near Gothenburg. He was baptized and confirmed in the American Lutheran Church. He graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1933...