Stories from Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Sept. 11, 1907--Aug. 16, 2005 SHENANDOAH, Iowa -- Adah Vee Riggs, 97, formerly of McCook, died Tuesday (Aug. 16, 2005) at Garden View Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa. She was born Sept. 11, 1907, in Bassett to Mark and Vera (Gorball) Howard. She grew up in Gordon, where her family moved soon after her birth...

March 5, 1922--Aug. 17, 2005 CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- Bernard Dale Sensel, 83, died Wednesday (Aug. 17, 2005) in Hospice Care Center in Centennial, Colo. He was born March 5, 1922, to Byrus and Minnie (Pollard) Sensel in Farnam. He was preceded in death by one brother and one sister...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE McCook Daily Gazette Red Willow County will continue with its jail study, as commissioners Monday morning approved spending $38,710 to determine where a jail might be built and how much it would cost. Although the county will pay for Phase II, the study will be designed to provide both the county and the City of McCook with reliable cost information on a co-located county-city law enforcement, jail and fire facility...

Grants -- people either love 'em or hate 'em. Although a federal grant is helping a rural Cambridge family develop an agricultural and environmental tour-ism retreat, a Red Willow County commissioner and a rural McCook resident still resent the existence and use of grants...

McCook Daily Gazette Red Willow County's 2005-2006 tax levy will increase from $.3100 to $.3440 per $100 of valuation. At their regular meeting Monday morning, county commissioners scheduled a public hearing to gather input on the budget for Monday, Sept. 12, at 9:30 a.m., in the commissioners' room on the third floor of the courthouse in McCook...

Red Willow County commissioners Monday morning approved a permanent easement for a water line to follow county road ditches to a housing development south of McCook. The six-inch main line and two-inch service lines will go from the City of McCook well site to homes in and near the Nothnagel Addition on South Highway 83. Homeowners in that area have been forced to haul water since their domestic water wells have run dry in the past two to three years...

Did you hear what the state climatologist, Al Dutcher, had to say about the end of the drought? Whether you did or not, his remarks bear repeating. "I don't know for sure if the drought is coming to an end," he said, "but I've got all 10 of my fingers crossed. I've got my legs crossed ... I'll even cross my eyes, if it helps."...

**Dear Editor, Not only sodas should be banned (from school vending machines) but all those high energy drinks, etc., should be also. Thanks **June Davis, McCook

**Dear Editor, I surely wish Mr. Anderson could point me to precisely where the Founding Fathers, any of them, mandated or in any way advocated the teaching of the Bible. Given that one of them, Thomas Jefferson, had the following to say: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Works, Vol. ...

Ten codes on the way out? It appears that way, at least for any agencies that accept federal funding, which includes, well, all of them. For anyone who didn't grow up watching Dragnet, or CHIPS, or who never owned a CB radio or listened to a police scanner, 10-codes are left over from the early days of mobile radio...

April 18, 1906--Aug. 19, 2005 TRENTON -- Laura Celestial Buzzell, 99, died Friday (Aug. 19, 2005) at the ElDorado Manor Home in Trenton. She was born April 18, 1906, to Charles and Mollie (Rheinheimer) Williams in Mascot. She grew up on a farm north of McCook and graduated from Culbertson High School in 1925...