Stories from Tuesday, May 13, 2003

PHILLIPSBURG, Kan. -- Decatur Community High School-Oberlin's Matt Mondero fired a 77 to capture first-place medalist honors at the Phillipsburg, Kan., Invitational Monday. Mondero fired 40 on the front nine holes and 37 on the back nine. Mondero and teammate Jonathan Richards, who fired an 88, placed second in the two-man competition with a 165...

HAYS, Kan. -- The Jennings High School boys track team finished 17th out of 22 teams at the Ransom Invitational Friday. The meet took place at the Fort Hays State University track. Jennings scored 10 team points. Grant Bailey placed second in the 800-meter run with a season-best time of 2 minutes, 4.84 seconds...

HAYES CENTER -- The 2002-03 journalism staff at Hayes Center High School continued the school's winning tradition this spring with its eighth-straight championship in the Class D Nebraska high school state journalism competition. The staff's advisor, Ann Fornoff, also won top honors, being named Class D's "Championship Advisor."...

Felix Bachmann thought Adolph Hitler's rantings would come to nothing. By the time he found out he was wrong, he was in a concentration camp. Bachmann's experiences came to life for McCook High School students Monday when his grandson, Oliver Pollak, described the life of his grandfather in Nazi Germany...

A Mayo Clinic surgeon plans to realign the hips of a young McCook woman, in an effort to alleviate pain and dysfunction caused by a bicycle accident 19 years ago. Dr. Robert Trousdale will perform a periacetabular osteotomy on Emilynn Karre's right hip during surgery May 30 at Rochester, Minn., Methodist Hospital...

As newspaper people, we are as proud as punch of the state championship honors won by the journalism programs at McCook and Hayes Center high schools. Not only did the newspaper and yearbook programs at the two schools win the state titles, but they did so by wide margins...

Dear Editor, I'm sure all of our area teachers deserve our appreciation, but I would like to use this means to thank two McCook educators for their job shadowing program. Mrs. Wolford, English instructor, and Mrs. Ocsner, guidance counselor, involve a variety of community members to share their work and school experiences with the Junior High Students...

Jason M. Reinsch, 29, died Friday (May 9, 2003) in McCook. He was a corrections corporal with the McCook Work Ethic Camp. He was a member of the Benkelman Chapter of Ducks Unlimited. Survivors include his wife, Jill of McCook; his father and step-mother, John and Naomi Reinsch of Lincoln; his mother and step-father, Diana and Dale Sonder of Lincoln; one sister, Lisa and husband, Chris Usserman of San Antonio, Texas; one brother, Derek Sonder of Lincoln; his mother and father-in-law, Greg and Vida Eden; and grandparents, aunts and uncles.. ...

OBERLIN -- Eunice Irene Petracek, 94, died Saturday (May 10, 2003) at the Decatur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin. She was born Nov. 18, 1908, in Juanita, Colo., to Bruce and Netta (Wasson) Moore. She was raised on a farm near Dresden and graduated from Decatur Community High School in Oberlin...