Stories from Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Bison JV finish with 6-0 record The McCook High School junior varsity football team defeated Chase County-Imperial 28-0 Monday night at Weiland Field. The Bison finished the season 6-0. Austin Barenberg scored two touchdowns -- a 4-yarder in the first quarter and a 1-yarder in the fourth quarter...

HOXIE -- The Decatur Community-Oberlin girls cross country team finished in third place on Saturday in the Northwest Kansas League cross country Championship. The boys finished fifth ahead of Oakley. Oberlin's Becky Helm medaled in the 10th spot and teammates Whitney Beinke and Lora Marietta finished in the top 20...

HAYES CENTER -- Hayes Center lost to Stapleton's football team on Friday 36-14. "This was a hard fought game with a playoff atmosphere, said Cardinals Coach Jim Cole. "This is a disappointing loss, but we are playing well and want a chance to prove ourselves in the playoffs."...

Aug. 31, 1917--Oct. 16, 2005 LINCOLN -- Alfred W. Kuper, 88, died Sunday (Oct. 16, 2005). He was born on Aug. 31, 1917, in Nelson to F.C.E. and Caroline (Paschold) Kuper. He was an agricultural educator at Crete High School in Crete and served as president of McCook College. He was in the U.S. Army Air Corp. He was also coordinator of Adult Education for the State of Nebraska...

July 2, 1911--Oct. 15, 2005 WESTMINISTER, Colo. -- Grayce O. Stute, 94, died Saturday (Oct. 15, 2005). She was born on July 2, 1911, to Thomas and Edna Sampson in Haigler. She married Fred Stute on Dec. 21, 1935. They made their home on a ranch northeast of Haigler...

BARTLEY -- Frank G. Michener, 67, died Monday (Oct. 17, 2005) at Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge. He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Perley E. and Esther M. (Morrison) Michener. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1960 and trained as an aviation electronics technician. He served in the Vietnam War. He reenlisted and received an honorable discharge in 1977...

Council members learned they had a reprieve from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality concerning waste water from the water treatment plant, but McCook City Manager John Bingham urged caution. "Although this gives us flexibility ... we still need to be very careful that this short term solution does not create a problem for the wastewater treatment plant," he said...

The chairman of the Share A Seat project vowed to see the project through, even after the McCook City Council turned down a $15,000 request to help buy seats for Memorial Auditorium. Missy Nelson approached the council Monday to say that in her efforts to collect money for this project, she was repeatedly asked by residents if the City of McCook was donating any funds. She said she has raised $15,000 since August, and is doing it in an effort to promote an economic benefit to the city...

A speed sign is evidently not always a speed limit. Sometimes it's just a suggestion. And both circumstances exist on Ravenswood Road in McCook. Red Willow County Sheriff Gene Mahon told county commissioners during their meeting Monday morning that his office receives many complaints about high-speed traffic on Ravenswood Road, a paved city street that turns into a dead-end paved-and-graveled county road on the southeast edge of McCook...

Have you noticed the big, full moon, so abundant and bright in the early morning and late evening? It was especially stunning Monday night just before sundown, with streaks of clouds and the fading sunlight giving it a serene, pinkish glow in the eastern sky, at almost exactly the same time that a huge sun was sinking to blazing glory in the west...

**Dear Editor, As Mr. McPhillips is well aware, one can find a web site to prove or disprove ANY perspective because all web sites are slanted and all news is slanted ("Try using other sources of news," Open Forum, Monday, Oct. 17, 2005). Conservatives are always blaming the "liberal media" for distorting the facts while most Democrats certainly don't believe that Fox News is "fair and balanced."...

**Dear Editor, This is a little overdue, but I want to take a moment to thank some people for their generosity last summer when on July 2 we had our first annual trail ride called "The Ride to End Violence." The month of October is National Domestic Abuse awareness month. Unfortunately, a lot of people do not survive domestic abuse or sexual assault. Those who do, experience some very devastating consequences...

I heard the manager of one of the convenience stores lament that money is so tight, lottery players who used to buy $5 worth of tickets are now dropping in only a buck. He cited the high cost of gasoline as the cause. Think of that. Lottery players will trade in one infinitesimal chance at $340 million for an even more infinitesimal chance and few gallons of gasoline...