Stories from Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Legion squad upsets top seed at Class C Area 7 Tournament RAVENNA -- The Furnas County Juniors American Legion baseball team advanced to the Class C state tournament at Gordon on the strength of two upset wins over Shelton-Gibbon in the Area 7 district tournament...

McCook High School golfer Brandon Crick captured first place in the 18-hole boys division at the McCook Junior Club Championship Tuesday. Crick, who recently played in the Nebraska Amateur, won the division with a 2-ver-par 73. He defeated Bison teammates Brett Chmiel and Kelly Maiden, who shot 83 and 88...

June 17, 1920-July 25, 2004 BIRD CITY -- Adeline "Ad" (Kehlbeck) Childers, 84, died Sunday (July 25, 2004) in Bird City. She was born June 17, 1920, in Cheyenne County, Kan. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bertram "Bert" Childers in 1997...

ATWOOD -- Lance Basgall's grandfather clock won "Grand Champion" in 4-H's senior division woodworking competition at the Rawlins County fair in Atwood, yet he doesn't plan to exhibit it at the state fair. Lance will be attending college at that time, he said, and to haul the clock case and all its parts takes up all but the driver's seat of the van. "And it all weighs, oh, probably 300 to 400 pounds," he said. "It's not easy to move."...

McCook's city manager told Red Willow County commissioners in a letter dated July 21 that the bleachers in the new Kiplinger Arena on the fairgrounds do not meet McCook's and Nebraska's building codes. City Manager John Bingham has given the county until Oct. 15 to remove the bleachers or to have a Nebraska-licensed en-gineer determine that the bleachers do, indeed, meet code...

While there are no proposals for increases in water and trash rates, McCook water users may be in for a case of sticker shock this year. City Manager John Bingham explained during the second and final budget workshop that the city of McCook will need to begin raising enough money to pay off the State Revolving Loan Funds it hopes to receive to pay for the city's water quality solution...

Now is when it all pays off. All that hard work and preparation, we mean. Actually, it's already beginning to pay off for the hundreds of 4-H'ers who have been preparing for this week, almost since last July. Across the paper from this page are photos and results from some of the earliest events for the Red Willow County Fair, the Fashion Review and the BB Gun/Air Rifle contests, held last week. Earlier, the 4-H Horse Show and Dog Show were held at the Kiplinger Arena...