Stories from Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Tim Garcia gets players off and running at camp Sweaty bodies piling into the McCook High School gymnasium may not be very exciting for most people, but for Tim Garcia he couldn't be more enthused. After commuting four and a half-hours between McCook and Tilden for open gym time this summer, the new head boys basketball coach at McCook High School is finally settling in...

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- Chris Wiemers, a McCook High School alum and the professional at Eagle Run golf course in Omaha, earned a spot in the PGA Championship this August by placing in the top 25 at the PGA Club Professional Tournament this weekend. The tournament was played on The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Resort, S.C...

Heritage Hills Golf Course in McCook will be the site for the first ever McCook High School Alumni Golf Tournament Sunday. The tournament tees it up with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. The format is a four-person scramble. There will be flight prizes and flag prizes on every hole...

After traveling out of town for many weekend tournaments, the McCook Midgets finally had the opportunity to sleep in their own beds. The McCook Midgets hosted their own tournament. On Saturday, McCook went 1-1 in pool play by beating Gothenburg 10-2 and falling to Ogallala 9-3...

Jacob, Adriene Sivits compete at Hastings Tae Kwon Do tournament HASTINGS -- Two students representing the Rod McKillip Memorial Program and Botsford's Tae Kwon Do/Karate School in McCook competed at the recent Hastings Fun in the Sun Tournament. Jacob Sivits received a first-place medal in forms and was third in sparring...

Willard and Irene (Atchison) Teel of Pueblo, Colo., will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at an open house Saturday, July 2, at the Elks Club in Pueblo. The couple was married June 30, 1955, in Alabama. Irene and Willard, who is a former resident of McCook, have three children, John Teel of Pueblo; Brian Teel and wife, Ilene, of Arvada, Colo., and Susan and Alvin Garcia of Westminster, Colo; and eight grandchildren. Cards will reach the couple at 73 Louis Nelson, Pueblo, CO 81001...

A large thunderhead hangs to the east of McCook, where it dropped hail of more than three-quarters of an inch on Monday evening. Elsewhere in the state, funnel clouds and hail were reported in the Panhandle, with some wheatfields destroyed. No major damage was reported with a tornado three miles east of Potter...

If you haven't already heard about the "Snowbird Trail," you will soon because McCook is a key part of the plan to link the northwest and southwest corners of Nebraska with a four-lane highway. State Sen. Joel Johnson of Kearney is promoting the plan, which he said could ultimately connect Minneapolis and Chicago with the snowbird states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona...

**Dear Editor, Retired police detective Mike Hendricks is to be commended for speaking out against the war on drugs. Attempts to limit the supply of illegal drugs while demand remains constant only increase the profitability of drug trafficking. For addictive drugs like methamphetamine, a spike in street prices leads desperate addicts to increase criminal activity to feed desperate habits. The drug war doesn't fight crime, it fuels crime...