Stories from Thursday, November 20, 2003

LEBANON -- Betty Jo McCashland Orvis, 79, died Tuesday (Nov. 18, 2003) at North Platte. She was born Jan. 18, 1924, south of Lebanon, to Francis Lloyd and Elsie Gay McCashland. She lived on the family farm until she was 11. The family moved to Lebanon and she attended school there...

BARTLEY -- Robert R. Kimball, 55, died Tuesday (Nov. 18, 2003) at Great Plains Medical Center in North Platte. He was born July 2, 1948, at Valentine, to Everett and Mae (Spence) Kimball. The family moved to the Rushville area where he attended school...

If the McCook High School Bison football team wants to bring home a second straight Nebraska Class B state championship, they will have to step it up in all phases of the game. That's because Omaha Bishop Roncalli Catholic excels on on offense, defense and special teams, said Bison head coach Jeff Gross...

IMPERIAL -- Chase County-Imperial High School football coach George Purnell is one step away from having his preseason prediction for the Longhorns come true. He picked his team to win the Nebraska Class C1 state championship back during the first days of practice in August...

CAMBRIDGE -- "Cambridge football" and "state championship game" just sound as if they were meant to go together. The Trojans' football machine will roll into Lincoln once again for the Nebraska Class C2 state championship title. The Trojans will play Crofton for the state title at 11 a.m. Friday at Memorial Stadium. Both teams are 12-0...

NORTH PLATTE -- The Mid-Plains Community College board of governors appointed a new vice president in charge of the North Platte Commmunity College Campus, approve the purchase of a skid loader for McCook Community College and decided not to change an architectural arrangement for a master plan for MCC...

Community Hospital officials credit a waterless hand sanitizer, a vacuum cleaner with a mold-and-mildew filter and the McCook hospital's on-going efforts for the lack of hospital-acquired infections during the first quarter of 2003-04. Following a hospital board meeting Wednesday morning, hospital president Gary Bieganski said dispensers are being installed for an alcohol-based hand sanitizer jell throughout the hospital. ...

Maybe it goes with the territory, but for as long as most of us can remember there have been differences between the McCook City Council and the Red Willow County Commissioners. It usually hasn't been a big thing ... just jaw-boning about who has the responsibility for providing ... and paying for... services...

**Dear Editor, I want to take a few lines to say that once every so often you regret you let certain things go by. For years, I had been wanting to get down to Herndon and watch a six-man football game. Upon hearing last spring that this would be my last chance to do so, I took in the last part of the season...

**Dear Editor, Last week in an apparent crackdown on insurgents, U.S. forces destroyed a dye factory in Baghdad, Iraq. Would this turn the owners purple with rage? Does this mean the enemy was spotted? Do these events stain anyone's conscience? It could give a person the blues...

It's hard to believe that the holiday season will get into full swing come next Thursday with Thanksgiving and, as the sign at a local retail outlet keeps reminding me, Christmas is just 35 days away, which means we'll be celebrating the New Year in 42...

NORTH PLATTE -- The Mid-Plains Community College board of governors appointed a new vice president in charge of the North Platte Commmunity College Campus, approve the purchase of a skid loader for McCook Community College and decided not to change an architectural arrangement for a master plan for MCC...