Stories from Monday, June 14, 2004

AUBURN -- The McCook First Central Bank American Legion Juniors baseball team finished third at the Auburn/Beatrice Tournament this weekend. The Juniors posted a 2-1 record at Auburn. The Juniors opened tournament play Friday afternoon with a 16-5 victory over Sabetha, Kan...

McCook 18 squad 4th at North Platte NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook Rebels 18 and under girls fastpitch team posted a 2-2-1 record and placed fourth this weekend at the North Platte Tournament. Saturday Omaha Flash 000 000 0 -- 0 McCook Rebels 003 000 0 -- 3...

Sept. 6, 1937-June 5, 2004 Floyd Lee Bryant was born Sept. 6, 1937, in Hendley to Gail and Clara Bryant. He was the eighth of nine children. Floyd grew up on the family farm and graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis in 1955. Floyd studied telegraphy and worked for the Union Pacific Railroad for one year after graduation...

Dec. 2, 1913-June 11, 2004 Wilma Lenore Cohen, 90, died Friday (June 11, 2004) at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born Dec. 2, 1913, to Harry and Mabel (Kain) Rees in Wallace. She graduated from Wallace High School in 1932. On Oct. 23, 1938, she married Eugene Cohen in Wallace. ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Mae Lee Heble and William Kelly Wood were united in marriage July 19, 2003, on a mountain in Fort Collins, Colo. Parents of the couple are Clarence and Martha Heble of Trenton, April Wood of Front Royal, Va., and William and Bonnie Wood of Fuguay-Varina, N.C...

Holly Bahl of McCook and Andy Mattox of Omaha announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Linda Bahl and Warren and Kathie Mattox. The bride-to-be received her undergraduate degree at Wayne State College and her masters degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. ...

John Botts and Colleen Sudduth, both of McCook, announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. The couple is planninga June 26, 2004, ceremony at the McCook Harvest Church.

Mandy Perlinger of Omaha and Coleton Shifflet of Denver, Colo., announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Pam and Mike Perlinger of Paxton, Burnell and Michelle Shifflet and Wayne and Mary Jo Vontz, all of Cambridge. The bride-to-be is an elementary education graduate from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. ...

The family of Bob and Betty (Huff) Woodruff is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 50th anniversary, June 20. The couple married in 1954 in Beatrice. Their children are Chuck and wife, Holly Woodruff of Gering and Janie and husband, Tom Bredvick of McCook. They have six grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at 300 West 11th Street, McCook, NE 69001...

Law enforcement and work camp officers on the ground and in the air searched cornfields and canyons Friday night and Saturday morning for two men who ran from the Work Ethic Camp in McCook on Friday evening. One absconder, Andrew Wehling of Gage County, was apprehended in an oat field about three miles north of McCook on West Third on Friday night...

Lon Sowers of Gem reins his oxen team down Main Street in Herndon Saturday morning, in the parade celebrating Herndon's annual Ox Roast Days and commemorating the 125th anniversary of the founding of the community. Hundreds of residents and visitors lined the streets of downtown Herndon to watch 133 parade entries -- tractors, oxen, tractors, motorcycles, floats, clowns, tractors and tractors. ...

"Doctors" and "nurses throw treats from the Tri Valley Health System float at the annual Medicine Creek Days celebration in Cambridge. Other activities included street dances, pedal tractor pulls and a Living Memorial Museum in the Community Center.

PALISADE -- Oklahoma singer-songwriter Scott R. Taylor will appear at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Palisade school gym. Taylor, who started singing at the tender age of 3, does some of his own music as well as cowboy, western, folk, inspirational and bluegrass...

The Wauneta-Palisade cheerleaders perform during Saturday's Palisade Pioneer Day's parade. The annual festival also featured kid's games, mud volleyball, swimming and a 5K run and 1-mile fun run, as well as plenty of food and dancing.

Recognizing the first "golden hour" is vitally important during a trauma injury, McCook physicians and other local medical staff received trauma training recently in McCook to certify them in Advanced Trauma Life Support or ATLS. This training will not only provide McCook and area patients with the best possible care and emergency medical services needed when they have a life-threatening injury, it will also help Community Hospital get one step closer to achieving a Trauma Center designation, according to Darcie Johnson, R.N. ...

Last month McCook witnessed an end of an era. The close association of the Elbert family and St. Patrick's Church, closed with the death of Esther Elbert at 99 years. Before 1882, Catholic settlers in Western Nebraska were served by a circuit rider, Rev. A.J. Fanning, a visitor from Illinois. Father Fanning had an almost impossible territory to cover, by horseback, covered wagon, or by foot, from Fort Kearny to the Colorado border...

Sports fans in McCook and Southwest Nebraska are bursting with pride today following the selection of McCook High School's football coach, Jeff Gross, as the 2003-04 Nebraska High School Boys Coach of the Year. The selection -- announced Sunday by the Omaha World-Herald -- is for all high school boys' sports, including football, basketball, wrestling, golf, tennis, baseball, soccer and track and field. ...

**Dear Editor, Your caveat Mr. Pochop. This is not a personal attack, merely a comment on your letter of June 8 ("Disparity healthy," Open Forum. I'm trying to decide if I've ever seen a better example of specious, fatuous logic than your example of the colored water. Seems to me you miss the essential point...