Stories from Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Nelson, Hager place 8th,9th OGALLALA -- McCook High School senior Katherine Morell and the Bison girls golf team both placed second at the Ogallala Invitational Monday. The tournament was played at Westwind Country Club in Ogallala. Morell, who has won five tournaments, placed second for the second time this fall. She posted an 81...

The McCook Community College volleyball team will host Otero Junior College, LaJunta, Colo., at True Hall Gymnasium. The match is slated for a 7 p.m. start. The Indians are 2-13 after losing three matches last week. MCC lost to Eastern Wyoming Sept. 13 at Torrington 30-17, 30-16, 30-26, Western Nebraska Sept. 14 at Scottsbluff 30-13, 30-10, 30-23 and North Platte Friday at North Platte 30-18, 30-15, 31-29...

I don't know about everyone else, but all of these last minute passes into the end zone are beginning to raise my blood cholesterol level. At least this week it was Pitt heaving their hope as time expired. For the second straight week, I was left wondering how the heck Nebraska didn't hold a commanding lead at the end of the game...

With the help of two investigators from the Nebraska Attorney General's office and an investigator with the Nebraska State Patrol, the McCook Police Department is continuing the investigation into the July death of David Moreau. Red Willow County Attorney Paul Wood said this morning the three investigators are reviewing the information the McCook Police Department has received to date and will meet with local law enforcement agents to discuss their findings...

After Monday's action by the McCook City Council, the city's water will be treated for arsenic, uranium and nit-rates with an ion exchange water treatment facility. Thomas Satchell of the design team of Jacobson Helgoth and W Design told the council the technology used in ion exchange will be the least expensive for the city and generate the least am-ount of waste...

WELLFLEET -- She's creative. And resourceful. She's not afraid of hard work, nor of trying something different ... a little non-traditional. She's a carpenter. She's an artist. She's a weaver and a builder of dreams. Luz Jones of Wellfleet is building the home of her dreams, complete with an art studio so she can weave the tapestries of her dreams...

Kyle Potthoff has been promoted to fill the Public Works Director position for the city of McCook vacated by the resignation of Marty Conroy last May. Potthoff has worked for the city since December 1996. During his first four years he worked in the Public Works Department as a laborer in the parks division. He was then promoted to administrative assistant in the finance office, a position he held for the past four and one-half years...

Get ready to celebrate! McCook's biggest annual festival, Heritage Days, is about to unfold! Always popular, the September shindig should be even more spectacular this year with the forecast calling for sunny skies with temperatures in the upper 70s...

**Dear Editor, I am writing in regard to the Friday, Sept. 17, article titled: "Calorie Caution: Pediatrician warns of obesity in children." I am pleased that Pediatrician Kathleen Farrell and Dietician Peg Brooks addressed the issue of childhood obesity with the McCook Public School Board...

March 25, 1916-Sept. 20, 2004 Raymond Willmann, 88, died Monday, Sept. 20, 2004, at Community Hospital of McCook. Raymond was born March 25, 1916, at Cheyenne, Wyo., to George and Amelia (Amen) Willmann. He attended St. John's Lutheran School, was confirmed and became a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Culbertson...

Feb. 27, 1938-Sept. 15, 2004 LEMOYNE -- E. Kay (Land) Smith, 66, died Wednesday (Sept. 15, 2004) at her home in Lemoyne. She was born Feb. 27, 1938, to Cecil and Edith (Wolverton) Land in Dickens. In 1943, the family moved to North Plate where she attended school...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Korey and Barbara Albert of Fort Collins, Colo., announce the birth of their daughter, Hope Elizabeth, July 6, 2004. She weighed 10 pounds, 5 ounces and was 21 inches long. She has a two-year old sister, Grace Margaret. Grandparents are Phil and Mary Pate of McCook and Ken and Myrna Albert of Culbertson...

Travis and Jane Keith of Indianola announce the birth of their daughter, Morgan Darlene Keith, Aug. 29, 2004, at Community Hospital of McCook. She weighed 4 pounds, 15 ounces and was 18 3/4 inches long. Grandparents are Randy Keith of Indianola and Larry and Nancy Tinkham of Imperial...

CAMBRIDGE -- Junior and Melissa Cunningham of Bartley announce the birth of their son, Hunter Lee, Aug. 23, 2004, at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces and was 19 inches long. Grandparents are Bob and Tina Marts of Bartley, Tonda Trump of McCook and the late Duane Trump and Larry and Jackie Cunningham of Beaver City. Great-grandparents are Kenneth and Gerry Giespert of McCook, Hannah Hageman of Cambridge, the late Roy Hageman and the late Rosie Weaver of Bartley...