Stories from Wednesday, March 24, 2004

NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook High School girls tennis team opened the spring season Tuesday by posting victories over Hershey and Lexington at North Platte. The Bison girls swept Hershey 9-0 and won 6-of-9 varsity matches against Lexington. "The team got the season off to a great start by taking 22 of 24 matches overall (against Hershey)," said McCook tennis coach Matt Wiemers. "I'm pleased with how well the girls hustled and worked in each match...

By GLORIA MASONER City Editor It's been a long-time coming, but an ethanol plant three miles west of McCook is finally beginning to take shape. Al Voudrie of Voudrie Business Development an-nounced Tuesday that equipment should begin arriving for a research-and-development ethanol plant three miles west of McCook by April 1...

TRENTON -- Don Leach of Culbertson sat in a line of trucks this morning, waiting to dump his corn at the new Trenton Agri Products LLC ethanol plant east of Trenton. Leach's was among the first loads of corn into the new plant, which will start grinding Monday...

The arrival of spring has brought a resurgence of construction projects in the McCook area, with work costing several million dollars already in progress, and projects costing many millions more on the horizon. The most dramatic announcement came Tuesday, when the Board of Directors of SW Energy LLC, announced the new company would be building an ethanol plant three miles west of McCook on land purchased from the Shepherd family...

What do you want to be when you grow up? I'm sure that's a question you often heard as a kid. It's something that every child thinks about and for which they have an answer. Maybe it's a doctor, lawyer, police officer, nurse, or teacher. Perhaps it's something a little more exotic, like an astronaut, pilot, or NASCAR driver...

Our husbands had worked together, albeit briefly, in a newly constructed apartment complex. Hers was a painting subcontractor, offering temporary employment and though Danny had no practical experience in that trade, he proved again to be the hardest worker on any man's crew...

The McCook College Foundation board of directors recently approved a major expansion in funding for scholarships beginning in academic year 2004-05, according to foundation officials. The organization is adding up to 10 academic scholarships for full-time students awarding $2,000 per year for two years...

McCook Community College is the proud new owner of a 1992, Vanhool commercial 49 passenger bus. The bus was purchased from ABC Bus Co. in Faribault, Minn., and is one of the largest bus dealers in the U.S. The Faribault location has approximately 200 used buses for inspection. ...

Dec. 3, 1942-March 15, 2004 DUNCAN, Okla. -- Twila Faye Black Kaus, 61, died Monday (March, 15, 2004) at Duncan Regional Hospital in Duncan, Okla., after a brief battle with cancer. She was born Dec. 3, 1942, in Oberlin to Ralph and May (Duncan) Black...

Irma Marjorie (Wegener) Friehe passed from this life to be with her Lord Sunday, March 21, 2004, at the Nebraska Heart Institute in Lincoln at the age of 80 years. Irma was from Macon. Irma was born Jan. 10, 1924, to August Fredric and Mildred Elize (Rathe) Wegener in Norton, Kan. ...

July 15, 1912-March 22, 2004 PERKINS PAVILION -- Anna Knepp, 91, died Monday (March 22, 2004) in Perkins Pavilion. She was born July 15, 1912, to Fred and Lizzie (Krull) Freitag in Glenvil. She graduated from Mascot High School in Mascot in 1930. On June 1, 1935, she married Guy S. Knepp in Holdrege. They farmed in the Carter area northwest of Orleans. They then moved to Huntley where she was a cook at the Huntley Public School for 14 years. She moved to Hastings in 1981...

The family of Opal Collicott is hosting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday March 28. Cards of congratulations will reach her at PO Box 27, Haigler, NE 69030.

The family of Myrtle Schiessler is hosting a card shower in honor of her 100th birthday March 28. She was born in a sodhouse in northwest Kansas. She has three daughters, Frances Schiessler, Doris Fedro and the late Janice Berry. She has nine grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 105 South Rodehauer No. 3, Oberlin, KS 67749...

Aaron and Tamara Kolbet announce the birth of their daughter, Kailee Michelle, March 9, 2004, at Community Hospital of McCook. She was 6 pounds, 0.4 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. She has a brother Coleton, six-years-old. Grandparents are Roger and Lynn Kolbet of Culbertson, Wayne Melton of Wallace, Ron and Renae Doyle of Lee's Summit, Mo. Great-grandparents are Anne Cooper of Culbertson and Warren and Lavonna McClintock of North Platte...