Stories from Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Tigers 2-0 at Cheylin BIRD CITY -- The Dundy County volleyball won two matches at Cheylin Tuesday and improved to 13-5. Dundy County defeated Cheylin 25-14, 25-11 and Hitchcock County 25-16, 25-22. Hitchcock County defeated Cheylin 25-23, 25-16. Aubrey Kehlbeck and Jessica Marshall led Cheylin in serving with four each against Dundy County. Kaedra Dixson had four kills for the Cougars...

McCook squad plays North Platte Thursday ALLIANCE -- The McCook High School boys tennis team swept nine varsity matches from Scottsbluff and took 6-of-9 from Alliance Tuesday at Alliance. "Brad (Potthoff) and Brandon (Crick) earned key wins in singles, as did Joel and Asher (Brooks) and Brett (Burton) and Harrison (Ford) in doubles," said McCook tennis coach Matt Wiemers...

Bison freshmen volleyball team falls to Southwest INDIANOLA -- The McCook High School freshmen volleyball team dropped to 6-7 Tuesday's match at Southwest. Because of small numbers of freshmen at Southwest, the match was played in a best-of-5 format...

Families are invited to attend the fifth annual "Families Are Special" Conference on Saturday, Nov. 6 at the McCook High School. Ron Willis from Green Porch Swing Productions, will be the keynote speaker for the conference. Willis' keynote is entitled "In Case We Need to Eat Our Words, Let's Make Sure Some Are Sweet and Tender." Ron Willis will remind us of sensitive principles of communication with others who are frustrated and frustrating. ...

The waiting game is almost over for the grain producers of the Golden Plains. After six months of watching and worrying, the grainmen and women are starting the harvest of corn, milo and soybeans in Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas. From all indications, the yields are going to be considerably better than last year, but a little short of the bin-busting production anticipated after the soaking rains of late June and July. ...

A faithful reader sent in the following item from her church bulletin and I thought it would be fun to share. ------ Following are old time quotes or proverbs a teacher asked her first graders to finish. (The old-time answers are contained in parentheses. The answers given by the first graders are marked with asterisks.)...

Sept. 6, 1938-Sept. 30, 2004 EATON, Colo. -- Robert Wayne "Bobbie" Wurm, 66, died Thursday (Sept. 30, 2004) at his home in Eaton, Colo. He was born Sept. 6, 1938, to Ewald John and Iris Vera (Fourtner) Wurm in Oberlin. He attended school in Oberlin and graduated in 1957...

McCook Police have cited two teenagers for 18 incidents of criminal mischief to vehicles in McCook. According to a news release from the McCook Public Safety Center, two teenage boys have been cited for allegedly using golf balls to break out windows of 18 vehicles. The teens were charged with one count of felony criminal mischief and 17 counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief...

Less than a month after a successful Heritage Days, the McCook Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for another spectacular event. The first balloon festival was held in McCook 21 years ago. Now known as the Freedom Flight, the McCook festival is continuing to grow since it was revived in 2001...

March 2, 1925-Oct. 1, 2004 APPLE VALLEY, Calif. -- Velda D. Schandler, 79, died Friday (Oct. 1, 2004) at her home in Apple Valley, Calif. She was born March 2, 1925, in Victorville, Calif. Her parents were Loren Daniels and Maude Dewese McAmis. She and her late husband, Marlin, were owners and operators of the former Schandler Funeral Home in Atwood and a furniture store...

The story of William E. Baldwin, McCook police officer and chief of police from 1920 to 1926, goes back through a family connection that includes the first elected sheriff of Hitchcock County who nearly killed, and then nursed back to health, the outlaw who eventually shot and killed Wild Bill Hickock in Deadwood, S.D., according to a Hitchcock County historical document on the Web site http ://www. rootsweb. com/~neh itche/h istory/sheriff. html...