Stories from Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Duo posts 40-4 record LINCOLN -- The McCook High School No. 2 doubles team of Natalie Brooks and Jennifer Chmiel were the runnersup in their division at the Nebraska State High School Girls Class B Tennis Championships. The Class B state tournament took place at Lincoln's Woods Tennis Complex...

EMPORIA, Kan. -- Rawlins County-Atwood's Andy Fikan and Decatur Community-Oberlin's Jonathon Richards both placed in the top 20 Monday at the Kansas Class 2A boys state golf tournament. Fikan finished as the eighth-place medalist with a 76. Richards tied for 14th place with a 79. He fired a 41 on the front nine holes and 38 on the back nine...

OMAHA -- Wauneta-Palisade's Kiane Alberts placed third in Class D high jump this weekend at the Nebraska State Track and Field Championships. Alberts picked up all six of the Broncos' team points. The accomplishments of Alberts and some of her teammates were unintentionally left out of the state track coverage in Monday's McCook Daily Gazette sports section...

The McCook Bison Football Team will be hosting the annual Championship Football Camp from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 6-9. The camp will feature many of the players that helped McCook to 3 straight State Football Championship games. This camp is designed for Grades 2-8 (fall of 2005. Boys and girls are welcome...

(Sept. 13, 1938 - May 22, 2005) IMPERIAL -- Arvin Duane Kurth, 66, died Sunday (May 22, 2005), in Imperial. He was born Sept. 13, 1938 in Sidney to August Frederick William Kurth and Viola Louise Burke. He was baptized and confirmed at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dalton. He attended Dalton public schools...

(March 11, 1945 - May 20, 2005) EDDYVILLE -- Sarah Joy O'Mara, 60, died Friday (May 20, 2005), at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born March 11, 1945 in Broken Bow, to Arthur and Lily (Weinman) Kinish. She lived near Anselmo and attended Rural District 58 until the seventh grade. ...

The family of Bob and Deloris Myers are hosting an open house in honor of the couple's 50th anniversary Saturday, May 28 from 2-4 p.m. at the Indianola Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. The couple married on June 2, 1955. Children of the couple are Patty Swayze of Sidney, Sharon Myers of Gurley, and Dennis, and wife, Cheryl Myers of North Platte. The couple has seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...

A proposal to exchange the city's Public Safety Center for the East Ward Elementary School building met with resistance from the McCook City Council, during a noon-time special meeting, Monday. After a presentation by Police Chief Ike Brown, Fire Chief Marc Harpham and Building Inspector Doyle Wineland, Council members raised concerns about the proximity of the proposed site to a residential neighborhood, locating all the city's offices in the same building, the layout of the building and comparable costs of the project.. ...

Red Willow County commissioners signed an interlocal agreement with Danbury village officials Monday morning to provide law enforcement for village ordinances. Sheriff Gene Mahon said this morning that Danbury will pay $1,800 yearly, $150 a month, for the service...

ATWOOD -- Rich Hamilton's '41 Willys coupe caught everyone's eye -- the flawless dusty-red paint ... the depth of the smokey flames. "And that blower motor is pretty nice, too," chuckled Cody Cooper of Akron, Colo., one of the thousands of car buffs who jammed downtown Atwood Saturday and Sunday for the 23rd annual Early Rod Run...

It may be too much to expect at this late date, but David Hergert would be serving the best interests of the University of Nebraska and the people of the state if he would resign as the regent representing Western Nebraska. With all the questions being raised about Hergert's campaign -- including admissions by Hergert that he violated the campaign spending and reporting law -- it is questionable how his service on the board can be of any value...

**Dear Editor, I am encouraged by Mike Hendricks' column of 5-21 A.D. 2005. It's refreshing to realize that Mike agrees with God and his commandment No. 9, "Thou shalt not bear false witness" (Don't lie.) Wouldn't this be a different world if everyone lived by the Ten Commandments? No suitcase nukes, no murder, no herpes, no pagan idolatry, etc. I'm looking forward to, God willing, Mike's next nine columns! (Or his next two, "Love God" and "Love thy neighbor."...

**Dear Editor, In reference to the editorial "Find compromise on marriage law," a basic tenet of the natural law is violated. There is no advancement when truth is "compromised" -- for that is not compromise, it is error. (And, this violence is done to all parties involved, for error is destructive.) So, to indicate to active homosexuals that their relationships are morally acceptable, normal, or healthy simply is not true, and thus is not in their own, or our (society's) best interest...

**Dear Editor, With the warm weather that we have experienced in the last few days, Mother Nature has served notice that summer has arrived. And the big event for summer, of course, is the celebration of our American freedom on July 4th. For several months now, the McCook Optimist Club Community Fireworks Display committee has been busily preparing for Monday evening July Fourth. ...

Saturday's story about dowsing for graves brought back some memories. Way back in the day, my college years, that is, a buddy of mine used to work for a surveyor who swore by the dowsing method described in Connie Jo Discoe's story on the front page...

(April 20, 1943 - may 22, 2005) Errol Brunk, 64, died Sunday (May 22, 2005), at his home in McCook. He was born on April 20, 1941, in Oberlin, to Dale L. and Lila R. (Vernon) Brunk. He graduated from Oberlin High School in 1958. On Nov. 24, 1990, he married Judith R. Hanes in Oberlin. They made their home in the McCook community where Errol was employed by Parker Dayco for 31 years...