Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Fall may not be a good time to use a swimming pool, but it is the perfect time to remodel a bathhouse and improve the pool. The city of McCook is in the middle of a two-phase, $350,000 project to improve the public swimming pool. The first phase began in late summer with the removal of the cement decking around the pool. ...

Jacquetta Davis, Community Hospital's Accounts Payable Clerk, has been chosen as Community Hospital's 2002 Caring Kind recipient. Davis has been employed at the hospital for 13 years and lives in McCook. She was selected by Community Hospital's Pride, Activities, Communication Team...

OMAHA -- Travis and Jessica Barger of Omaha announce the birth of a daughter, Aiden Ann-Marie, born Wednesday (Sept. 18, 2002). She weighed 8 pounds and 11 ounces. Grandparents are William and RanDee Barger of Culbertson and Therese Bender of Omaha. Great-grandparents are Helen McNew of McCook and William and Dixie Knowles of Des Moines, Iowa...

Have you thought much about the year 2020 lately? Or what about 2015? Or, even, for that matter, 2005 or 2010? If you're anything like the majority of people, thoughts about life that far into the future are few and far between. Most folks have enough trouble dealing with the challenges of everyday life, let alone finding time to think about what's going to be happening a number of years down the road...

Dear Editor, The facts are in, look at the Nebraska players in trouble that drink. Everyone wants to ban the smokes but the alcohol is "OK." Someone please get their head out of the sand. Cigarettes and alcohol both are killers, if you raise taxes on one, why not the other?...

Dear Editor, In response to the letter written to the editor about Stratton on 10/14/02, I would like to say that most of the residents in Stratton feel very bad for what has happen to the family who lost their house, and would like to do what they could to help them...

My computer is tired. It thinks a long time before finishing a task. Things it once did with ease now take a good while to process. That's understandable. After all, in "computer years," ours is getting up there. It has more to consider than it did six years ago, when we first brought it home...

Frieda Wagner, 98, died Friday (Oct. 11, 2002) at Perkins Pavilion, Good Samaritan Village, in Hastings. She was born Feb. 28, 1904, at McCook, to John and Anna Margaret (Frick) Wagner. She attended school in McCook. She was employed for more than 35 years as a sales clerk for DeGroff's Department Store, retiring in 1970. She was a resident of McCook for 81 years and had been residing in Hastings for the past 17 years...