Stories from Friday, September 3, 2004

May 14, 1922-Aug. 28, 2004 ATLANTA, Ga. -- Anne Elizabeth Hines, 82, formerly of Benkelman, died Saturday (Aug. 28, 2004) at the Lifecare Center of Gwinnett near Atlanta, Ga. She was born May 14, 1922, to Thomas Raymond and Mary (Mimms) Rosser in Broadway, N.C. ...

For the first few months of the year, unemployment held steady in Red Willow County, hovering near the 2 percent level. With a work force of more than 6,500 people, that meant around 140 job-seekers in the county were receiving unemployment benefits...

**Dear Editor, One of Heritage Days' attractions is the Army Air Base north of McCook. It will be open with special ceremonies each day. There is so much work to be done on the base and so few people to help -- so grab your duster, broom or mower and go out and help get the Air Base ready to welcome the airmen of World War II that were stationed at the base and that were able to make the trip to Nebraska...

As a novice gardener, I was thrilled when the seeds I planted earlier this summer actually produced something. Of course, like every new endeavor, my interest has waned. And while not rooting for a quick death to my plants, I'm not being very encouraging at this point. I might have even said a few bad words every time I prick my finger on a tomato cage or scrape my arm on a cucumber leaf...

McCook survives four-game match against Hastings It was the kind of match McCook High School volleyball coach Krystal Weber has been waiting for three years for her squad to play. The Bison won 3-of-4 games from the Hastings Tigers Thursday night at the MHS gym in their season- and home-opening match...

The speaker for the Heritage Days Prayer Breakfast will be Jean Morrison Galloway, a former McCookite who now serves as president and chief executive officer of the Galloway Group in Denver. The Prayer Breakfast will be Friday, Sept. 24, at the Heritage Senior Center. Galloway is the daughter of the late Gov. Frank and Maxine Morrison...

HOLDREGE -- The eighth-ranked McCook High School softball team beat Holdrege 12-2 in five innings with the ten run rule on Thursday. Holdrege jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first, but McCook answered with one in the second, seven in the third, one in the fourth and three in the fifth. Holdrege added one in the fourth...

SIDNEY -- The McCook girls golf squad edged out Sidney for second place at the Sidney Invitational on Thursday. The Bison finished 29 strokes behind first place Scottsbluff, with a team score of 391. Sidney shot a 392. Katherine Morrell finished in second place with a round of 80...

HASTINGS -- The McCook High School boys tennis team earned a 9-0 shutout against a competitive Hastings squad Thursday afternoon. The Bison neters opened play by sweeping all doubles matches. "Both our 2 and 3 doubles teams played well and dominated their matches," said McCook tennis coach Matt Wiemers...

Participants listen as Doug Skiles (right), president of the Prairie Plains Court Appointed Special Advocates, moderates a panel discussion to prepare CASA volunteers to advocate for children in the court system. Also taking part in Wednesday's event were (from left) Nicole Jasnoch, child protective worker for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Detective Bill Hoyt of the McCook Police Department, Red Willow County Judge Cloyd Clark, attorney Anne Paine of Oxford, and Skiles...

COZAD -- The McCook High School boys and girls cross country teams placed fourth and fifth at the Cozad Invitational Thursday. The Bison boys finished with 70 points and the girls tallied 75. There were three McCook medalists. Shawn McMurtrey finished sixth and Cody Martin 18th in the boys race. Rebecca Rawlings finished 16th in the girls race...

CURTIS -- The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture golf team begins competing this month and coach, Brad Jakubowski, has high hopes for a successful year. The men's team consists of 13 golfers while the NCTA women's team has two competitors. The team will travel to meets across the state of Nebraska as well as Wyoming and Kansas...

BIRD CITY -- The Southwest Roughriders volleyball team split games against a couple of Kansas teams. Southwest defeated the Cheylin Cougars 25-8, 25-13. The Rawlins County Buffaloes took two of three sets from the Roughriders 14-25, 25-17, 25-22. Rawlins County defeated Cheylin 25-12, 25-7...

WAUNETA -- Robert "Bob" Nordhausen, 58, died Wednesday (Sept. 1, 2004) at his home in Wauneta. Survivors include three sisters, Anita Smith and husband, Mert of Seward, Veleta Sutherland and husband, Jim of Battle Lake, Minn., and Judy Evers and husband, Rudy of Wauneta; brother, Harold Nordhausen and wife, Jan of Wauneta; and sister-in-law, Colleen Garton and husband, Ben of Winsor, Colo...

ATWOOD -- Lonnie C. "Arkie" Snodgrass, 78, died Wednesday (Sept. 1, 2004) in Atwood. Mass of Christian burial is Monday, 10:30 a.m., at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Atwood with the Rev. Damian Richards officiating. Interment will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery...

Two events -- one natural, the other implemented by the McCook City Council -- have resulted in the need for an "aggressive and unforgiving" time schedule in developing improvements for the city's waste water treatment facility. According to a document from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, the Republican River's decrease in flow due to the ongoing drought has made it necessary to decrease the amount of ammonia being discharged from the city's waste water treatment plant by nearly half of the current limit.. ...

All of us like to be right. About everything. All the time. Unfortunately, we're not and often we're wrong more often than we're right. Sometimes it is obvious to others and sometimes it isn't. It's not difficult to see successful people operating in our world and figure out that they were either right more often than they were wrong or that they happened to be right at the right time. ...

The beauty of a revolving loan fund is that when loans are paid back, the money is loaned out again ... paid back ... and loaned out again. That's the theory and -- up to this point -- the plan has worked out exceedingly well in Red Willow County. The program began in 1998 when Community Development Block Grants of $540,000 were awarded as loan funds for two large-scale milking operations: Red Willow Dairy and Three Star Dairy...

In keeping with realism in the training, we trained for a week on the outskirts of San Diego at a TV/movie studio. The training wasn't on as large of scale as the Air Force base, but the special effects and simulated injuries were convincing. Too convincing perhaps...